Matemáticas para entender el mundo en que vivimos

How do cryptocurrencies work? What about quantum computers? How is herd immunity from a pandemic achieved? What does mathematics have to do with sports tactics? And with the signings of the footballers? Gigantic numbers with special properties keep our money safe and our messages safe when we do something online. In the beating of a human heart, the development of a pandemic, the growth of crystals and all kinds of music is a mathematical infrastructure. Juan Medina and David Darling show us, in accessible language, how mathematics and algorithms are behind many of our daily activities and the current functioning of the world, from the economy and finances to the security of the messages we send via WhatsApp or Telegram. Faced with their image of geniuses on the fringes of reality, mathematicians have had a lot to do with making the world we live in as it is.