Devlin K. The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible

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W.H. Freeman & Company, 1998. - 413 pages.

Mathematician Devlin offers readers readers a primer for mathematics, its history, and recent development in the numbers field. LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS walks readers through a range of topics from non-Euclidean geometry, network theory, and quantum mechanics to the impacting legacy left by some of history's greatest mathematicians, including Fermat, Galois, and Archimedes. The author is a featured contributor to the PBS series LIFE BY THE NUMBERS.

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