Marcel Danesi is Full Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Network of the Fields Institute of Mathematical Research. He has published extensively in the field of mathematical cognition and in the theory of mathematical puzzles. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today that explore the nature of the puzzling mind.

• 1: The Pythagorean Theorem: The Birth of Mathematics 2: Prime Numbers: The DNA of Mathematics 3: Zero: Place-Holder and Peculiar Number 4: Pi: A Ubiquitous and Strange Number 5: Exponents: Notation and Discovery 6: e: A Very Special Number 7: i: Imaginary Numbers 8: Infinity: A Counterintuitive and Paradoxical Idea 9: Decidability: The Foundations of Mathematics 10: The Algorithm: Mathematics and Computers

A pleasant read, with a number of interesting asides

Marcel Danesi is Full Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Network of the Fields Institute of Mathematical Research. He has published extensively in the field of mathematical cognition and in the theory of mathematical puzzles. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today that explore the nature of the puzzling mind.

• 1: The Pythagorean Theorem: The Birth of Mathematics 2: Prime Numbers: The DNA of Mathematics 3: Zero: Place-Holder and Peculiar Number 4: Pi: A Ubiquitous and Strange Number 5: Exponents: Notation and Discovery 6: e: A Very Special Number 7: i: Imaginary Numbers 8: Infinity: A Counterintuitive and Paradoxical Idea 9: Decidability: The Foundations of Mathematics 10: The Algorithm: Mathematics and Computers

A pleasant read, with a number of interesting asides

Marcel Danesi is Full Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Network of the Fields Institute of Mathematical Research. He has published extensively in the field of mathematical cognition and in the theory of mathematical puzzles. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today that explore the nature of the puzzling mind.

• 1: The Pythagorean Theorem: The Birth of Mathematics 2: Prime Numbers: The DNA of Mathematics 3: Zero: Place-Holder and Peculiar Number 4: Pi: A Ubiquitous and Strange Number 5: Exponents: Notation and Discovery 6: e: A Very Special Number 7: i: Imaginary Numbers 8: Infinity: A Counterintuitive and Paradoxical Idea 9: Decidability: The Foundations of Mathematics 10: The Algorithm: Mathematics and Computers

A pleasant read, with a number of interesting asides