About the Book: How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of
mathematics
No, hang on, lets 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.
The world of numbers is indeed strange and beautiful. Among its inhabitants are
some really notable characters - pi, e, the square root