Pappas, Theoni

Penrose the cat explores and experiences a variety of mathematical concepts, including infinity, the golden rectangle, and impossible figures.

Among those chronicled: Aristotle, Archimedes, Babbage, Barrow, Barton, Bernoulli, Cavalieri, Democritus, Descartes, Einstein, Fairfax, Lalileo, Gauss, Godel, Hippasus, Hypatia, Kepler, Kowalewski, Lagrange, Leibniz, Locke, Newton, Pascal, Plato, Ptolemy, Turing, Voltaire, Whitehead, and Zeno.

Explores mathematics through stories, puzzles, challenges, games, tricks, and experiments. Answers are provided in a separate section.

Presents an introduction to math, and provides a collection of poetic dialogues to be read by two people the includes various mathematical ideas.

Delves into the world of ideas and explores the spell that mathematics casts on our lives. Includes some mathematical problems and solutions.

Includes short stories and discussions which present such mathematical concepts as decimals, tangrams, number lines, and fractals.