What is mathematics? -- Counting the cosmos -- The number line -- Number bases -- Nothing, nada, nil, zero -- Birth of math -- Unfeasibly large numbers -- An infinity of infinities -- The prime numbers -- It's a mod-n world -- Sets and logic -- Proof -- How long is a coastline? -- The imaginary world -- All out of shape -- Tessallations -- Into the 4th dimension -- Impossible objects -- Graphs and networks -- The right size -- Like rabbits -- Animal populations -- Your body in numbers -- What is life? -- Choices, choices -- Chance and risk -- Samples and averages -- Algorighms -- Keeping secrets -- Up in the air -- Construction time -- Math tales -- A sporting chance -- Laws of motion -- Orbits -- Time -- the ultimate speed limit -- Shape of the universe -- Problem solved! -- Biographies

Investigates all aspects of math and numbers, arranged in thematic chapters that are easy for the non-mathematical mind to navigate and understand