Numericon: The Hidden Lives of Numbers by Rachel Thomas, Marianne Freiberger

Numericon: The Hidden Lives of Numbers

Rachel Thomas, Marianne Freiberger

190 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science informative slow-paced
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Numericon tells the stories of the numbers, mathematical discoveries, oddities and personalities that have shaped the way we understand the world around us. Each chapter is its own story about a number: why 12 is a sublime number, why 13 is unluck...

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