What Numbers Hide

Numbers surround us from all sides, they live their own lives far beyond mathematics and can become a starting point for looking at literature, art, and the structure of the world in a different light. The mathematician-educator Maurizio Codogno loves to lead readers «beyond numbers» and in this book reveals, for example, the mystery of the number «666», explains why Dante talks about «515», and that the «unlucky» number is not just «13», tells about the numerical values of musical rhythms, about «24,000 kisses» from a song by Celentano, about Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and Google. The book reads easily from any place: each chapter is a new story about numbers, large and small, astonishingly embedded in our everyday reality. Maurizio Codogno is a mathematician and an expert in computer science, he graduated from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In addition, he is a translator, blogger - writes for the websites xmau.com and ilpost.it - and the author of several popular science books on mathematics. In his own words, he loves to play with words and numbers, constantly seeks to learn something new and tries to share the knowledge gained with others.