The Remarkable Lives of Numbers

NIEDERMAN DERRICK

A brilliantly original tour of numbers, and what makes them special. Did you know there are 17 possible types of symmetric wallpaper pattern? Do you know what 'casting out the nines' is? Or why 88 is the fourth 'untouchable' number? Or how 7 is used to test for the onset of dementia? Number fanatic Derr...