The Number Mysteries: A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life
About this ebook
Mathematics has been called the language of the universe. In The Number Mysteries, Marcus du Sautoy, one of our generation's foremost mathematicians, teaches you about this fascinating dialect while discovering its playful side—from how to write a number with 12,978,189 digits to why a 6 x 6 sudoku grid is impossible to solve. He also reveals the five greatest mysteries of mathematics and how, despite centuries of effort, they are still waiting to be solved. From the quest to discover the shape of the universe to improving your odds at rock, paper, scissors, du Sautoy brings math alive for budding mathematicians of every skill set.
"Marcus du Sautoy's love for numbers glows on every page. Du Sautoy is the Steve Irwin of the number kingdom." —Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion
Discover more
Ratings and reviews
About the author
Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and currently holds the same chair that Richard Dawkins once did. He is active in reaching out the public, speaking at TED Conferences, writing for The Times (London) and The Guardian, and has appeared in specials on both BBC and PBS. He is the author of The Music of the Primes and Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature. He has been named one of the UK's leading scientists by The Independent on Sunday and in 2001 he won the Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society, which is awarded every two years to reward the best mathematical research by a mathematician under forty.
