The magic of mathematics. How to find x and why is it necessary?

Why could not you learn about numbers, algebra and geometry in such an exciting form before? "Magic Mathematics" is the book that you dreamed about at school. Using many unusual examples - playing cards, ice cream balls, the measurement of the mountains - Arthur Benjamin tells you about the beauty of mathematical formulas. All that used to go from, now it turns out to be simple and clear. The book also explains the fact that it is not so well familiar to the inexperienced reader: the triangle of Pascal, mathematical infinity, the magical properties of some numbers, the sequence of fibonacci, the golden section. This will expand and enrich your knowledge, and the deeper you comprehend mathematics, the more exciting its magic turns out to be