Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It's time to reconsider. This
book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers-and more.
How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of
history? Would numbers exist if we Homo sapiens weren't around to
discover them? What's so special about weird numbers like pi and the
Fibonacci sequence? What about rational, irrational, real, and imaginary
numbers? Why do we need them? Two veteran math educators explain it all
in ways even the most math phobic will find appealing and
understandable. You'll never look at those squiggles on your calculator
the same again.