In a world full of intellectual challenges, mathematics remains a vital essence to understand the complex facts around us. Jacqueline Setedal takes us on a fun journey throughout the history and diversity of mathematics in this exciting book from the "Scientific Views" series. The writer explores the historical and cultural developments of numbers and shapes, as it focuses on exciting academic situations of various ages and regions. From the imperial China to the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, to Britain in the nineteenth century, the book highlights the various contexts in which mathematics flourished and how people inherited it through the ages.