Historia de los números

Everything you missed the day you dropped math, and that you have time to recover. We are often not aware of the extent to which our lives revolve around numbers. We may have forgotten grammar rules, chemical formulas, physical laws, historical narratives, or philosophical concepts learned in school, but what we will never forget are numbers. We spend the day counting, measuring and weighing. We use numbers to order the world, and even more, to build it. This book shows us, in an entertaining and concise way, how numbers were born and grew to become part of our daily lives, and how great problems had to be solved and many difficulties overcome, not only those of a purely mathematical nature, but also those that were generated in different areas, such as religious or philosophical. Enrique Gracián brings into play his extensive experience as a teacher and scientific communicator to show us the more than 3,000 years of history that surround numbers. A stimulating journey that begins with the appearance of prime numbers -the object of profound and surprising mathematical research throughout the centuries- and takes us to the limits of infinity, the largest number of all and the only one that makes mathematics and philosophy find a common place.