How Numbers Work

Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let’s make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from – an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?) And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like p which never end. It literally never ends. This title takes a tour of this mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them.