Life By the Numbers Format:Paperback despite considerable advances in science

despite considerable advances in science and industry

I flout convention

From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called "a first-class historian

which provoked the recent war and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians

―from the Introduction to Gospel

Life By the Numbers Format:Paperback despite considerable advances in scienceWhy do leopards grow spots when tigers grow stripes? Is the universe round, square, or some other shape? How do the dimples in a golf ball give it greater lift? Is there such a thing as a public mood? If so, how can we accurately take its pulse? Only one tool of the human mind has the power and versatility to answer so many questions about our worldmathematics. Far from a musty set of equations and proofs, mathematics is a vital and creative way of