No one knows for sure when mathematics went from being a functional system for keeping track of sheep to a philosophical system that transcended the objects it counted, but as well-known science ...

Math writer and teacher Berlinski is well-known for hid 1997 book A Tour of the Calculus. In this outing he reintroduces readers to their childhood friends, the integers, bringing out their complexity ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. He has two. The first is structural. While the narrative of Infinite Ascent proceeds more or less chronologically ...

LESS can be more in maths, at least when it comes to its history. With a topic that is liable to die in the reader’s hands before they’ve even reached the ancient Babylonians, David Berlinski has ...