"Mathematician Colin Pask gently introduces the reader to the main ideas of mathematics and painlessly demonstrates how they are expressed in terms of symbols. The author not only teaches the reader why symbols are used, and how and why equations are constructed, but also exactly what is achieved by doing that. No high-level mathematics is required for learning about the basic approaches in mathematics. Through simple yet intriguing examples in number...

"A look at the numbers that surround us, big and small, on earth and in outer space."-- Provided by publisher.

"The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor,...

"Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a painting, a poem, or a piece of music. And the process...