‘This is an extraordinary book, really one of a kind. Written by two supreme experts, but aimed at the level of an undergraduate or curious amateur, it emphasizes the really powerful ideas, with the ...

Nowadays it is commonplace for apprentice mathematicians to hear 'we shall assume the standard properties of the real numbers' as part of their training. But exactly what are those properties? And why ...

geometry to numbers theory — each chapter takes an area of math and unpacks the story of its discovery, with particular focus on contributors outside the Eurocentric male norm. The book opens ...