Smartly conceived and fast paced, his book offers something for anyone curious about math and its impacts.

From protecting a world-famous painting in the Louvre to piloting a space shuttle back to Earth, Chris Waring demonstrates the mind-bending and humanity-saving beauty of equations.

Louis de Branges of Purdue University is recognized as the mathematician who proved Bieberbach's conjecture. This book offers insight into the nature of the conjecture, its history and its proof. It is suitable for research mathematicians and analysts.

'Professor Hao Bailin is one of China's most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists. He has made important contributions to a wide variety of research fields, including biology in which he pioneered a multidimensional method for studying the evolutionary pathways of bacteria. Indeed he calls himself, appreciatively I believe, a guerrilla fighter.'Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate