Ebook: Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography

For millennia, numbers have been our ever-present seducers and accomplices. As math professor Peter M. Higgins notes in this engaging book, we all use them almost constantly, although we often don't know that we are doing so. In Number Story, he attempts, generally quite successfully, to coax us into fecund mathematical realms that we seldom visit except in far-flung dreams.