Chronicles mathematicians' efforts to prove the Riemann hypothesis, using examples and theories from various scholars to attempt to prove, and disprove, the occurrence of prime numbers.
Zero traces how zero grew from a harmless placeholder to an idea that shook the intellectual and religious life of the European and Islamic worlds, and changed not only how humanity worked with numbers, but how we came to view the universe.
Discloses a variety of details about numbers like the year 1776 and discusses prime numbers and number patterns, and exposes revelatory properties of numbers. Also provides games and gambling with dice and playing cards along with mathematical puzzles.
Presents a collection of illustrations that provide picture puzzles, games, and simple activities that introduce the mathematical concepts of multiplication, factorials and the sequence an ordinal numbering.