This short book encompasses an astonishing array of ideas and concepts, from number tricks and magic squares to infinite series and imaginary numbers.

This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing.

With a foreword by Joe Lovano, an oral biography of the preeminent alto saxophonist of cool jazz

"[Acheson] introduces the fundamental ideas of calculus through the story of how the subject developed, from approximating π to imaginary numbers, and from Newton's falling apple to the vibrations of an electric guitar."--Back cover

This excellent book, written by the established author David Acheson, makes mathematics accessible to everyone.

Following in the footsteps of his bestselling The Calculus Story, David Acheson offers a highly illustrated tour of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present day, packed with elegant deductions and wide applications.

The essays in this volume are about arrangers, all of whom are also composers. They appeared first in [Lees'] publication Jazzletter.-Excerpt from Foreword, by Jeffrey Sultanof (p. ix).

At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales.