That hide numbers. Kodono M.

numbers surround us from all sides, they live their lives far beyond the borders of mathematics and can become a starting point for a view of literature, art and the structure of the world with different eyes. The Maurizio Kodonya mathematician loves to drive readers “on the other side of the numbers” and in this book reveals, for example, the secret of the number “666”, explains why Dante speaks of “515”, and the “unlucky” number is not only “13”, says About the numerical values ​​of musical rhythms, about “24,000 kisses” from the Celentano song, about Donald Daka, Mickey Mouse and Google. The book is easily read from any place: each chapter is a new story about numbers, huge and small, surprisingly inscribed in our daily reality.