Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and Times

Open a new portal into Shakespeare’s words—and his Renaissance life—with math and numbers as your key

“Highly readable. . . . Shakespeare’s surprising yet unsurprising mathematical sophistication led to some of his most creative feats.”—Bloomberg

Shakespeare’s era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of “zero” to Galileo’s redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare’s plays—and his world—through astronomy, code-brea...