This accessible work aims to inspire the general reader with the wonder and beauty of mathematics - our first native language. To savour mathematics is to feel the same exhilaration that great music inspires - the wonder that something invented by humans is also timeless. The text starts from the basics, moving systematically to the frontiers of the topic. The authors draw on science, literature, history, biography and philosophy, clarifying the knowledge that patterns of mathematics are everywhere.
Not as overwhelming as Journey through Genius, but this book is full of little gems of mathematics. Nearly all the "classic" proofs make an appearance.
The prose is flowery and full of allusions, which I like, but it could make some sections (already challenging due to the math in them) less accessible.
