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Summary:
In this book, the British math guru takes his readers on a journey through the realm of numbers - real, rational, irrational, complex; very, very small and infinitely large, fractals, logarithms, exponents, prime numbers, kiss numbers, and many more. Each chapter focuses on a specific number or group of numbers and explains why they are so interesting. "Every number has its own story to tell," it says in the foreword. Stewart tells these stories with enthusiasm and skillfully weaves them together, whether it's about the number Pi or, in the end, about secret codes, the Rubik's Cube, and Sudoku.

Additionally, readers learn a lot about the history of mathematics and the role it plays in our development. Ultimately, it was numbers, according to the author, that enabled humanity to pull itself out of the mud and reach for the stars.

Authors: Ian Stewart; Monika Niehaus (trans.); Bernd Schuh (trans. from the author): Ian Stewart, born in 1945, is the most popular mathematics professor in Britain. For decades, he has been successfully working to popularize his science. He studied mathematics at Cambridge and earned his doctorate at the University of Warwick. There, he is currently a professor of mathematics and director of the Mathematics Awareness Center. Since 2001, Stewart has also been a member of the Royal Society. He lives with his family in Coventry.