Download or read book Figurate Numbers written by Michel-marie Deza and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figurate numbers have a rich history with many applications. The main purpose of this book is to provide a thorough and complete presentation of the theory of figurate numbers, giving much of their properties, facts and theorems with full proofs. This book is the first of this topic written in unified systematic way. It also contains many exercises with solutions.