The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math

Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "What a fun escape! Reminds me of math books I read when I was coming of age." —Neil deGrasse Tyson An "exhilarating" (Steven Strogatz) tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts—from arithmetic to infinity—that form the building blocks of our universe. Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing—no matter, no cosmo