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The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math

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Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award


An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts-from arithmetic to infinity-that form the building blocks of our universe.

Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing-no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space-could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent, richly illustrat...