Description
Enter a colorful, mathematical world filled with wonders and beauties. Explore the mysteries of mathematics as the adventure unfolds over 1000s of years. (Of course, the 100s of color images and mathematical milestones are credited and carefully described in the book. Formulas, thought experiments, and recipes are given to allow thorough experimentation and deeper contemplation of the famous puzzles, games, paradoxes, and formulations.)
Reviews:
This author, well, picks over all the best numerical oddities in chronological order, beginning at 150 million BC with the development of the odometer by ants… My longtime rave favorite is the Mobius strip…. Small children and the inebriated will be amazed.” – Leigh Dayton, The Australian (newspaper)
Book review at Seed Magazine: “Handsome, image-filled volume…. Pickover, a bona fide polymath who has written more than 40 books, elegantly sums up each mathematical feat… Entertaining introduction to many strange and surprising ideas…. The book lets readers glimpse the history and development of mathematics and leaves a sense of awe at just how far the field has come.”
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