A Passion for Mathematics
Subtitle: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
Publisher: Wiley
Published: July 12, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780471690986
First sentence: IN WHICH WE ENCOUNTER RELIGIOUS MATHEMATICIANS, MAD MATHEMATICIANS, famous mathematicians, mathematical savants, quirky questions, fun trivia, brief biographies, mathematical gods, historical oddities, numbers and society, gossip, the history of mathematical notation, the genesis of numbers, and "What if?" questions.