Mathematics in the palm of your hand. Miracles with numbers are simple and clear. Bolla J.

“In this book, Johnny Ball is the most popular British TV presenter and passionate popularizer of accurate sciences - in an easy and fascinating form tells about mathematics: about its history and practical application, about mathematical games and puzzles, about how alive and non -core can be This science, even if you were convinced at school in the opposite.

“I undertook to write this book so that it appears to the readers of any caliber - young and old, scientists and unlearned. As Einstein once said: “If you cannot explain the thing to a seven -year -old child, then you yourself do not understand it.” I hope that my book will become you and your friends with a reliable companion who will help to see mathematics, and the whole world in a more clear and, if possible, favorable light. Mathematics made my life richer at all its stages; Let her enrich yours and yours. ” (Johnny Ball) "