Numericon tells the stories of the numbers‎,‎ mathematical discoveries‎,‎ oddities and personalities that have shaped the way we understand the world around us‎.‎ Funny‎,‎ bizarre‎,‎ tragic and dramatic‎,‎ these stories reveal the power‎,‎ passion and beauty of mathematics‎.‎ Each chapter is an intriguing story about a number‎,‎ including why 3 is strong‎,‎ e is natural and Graham‎'‎s number is too big to write‎.‎ Packed with quirky‎,‎ informative facts and bound in a beautiful foil‎-blocked cover‎,‎ this book will do for maths what The Etymologicon did for the English language‎.‎