Abstract:
This book is about Mathematics and the history of Mathematics, about mathematicians and societies in which they lived. The history of Greece, Germany, and Russia is presented in an unusually short manner. Besides Mathematics in Greece, you will read about the fashions of Greek women and men, Olympics, dances, food, colonization and democracy. You will read that Pythagoras didn’t eat beans because he thought that the human soul lives inside the bean. In this book you will learn what makes Mathematics simple and unified science.