Los números de la vida

What if mathematics were the only way to understand how you feel, to understand society, to try to articulate the world? Of finding the best seat on the train and the quickest queue at the greengrocer, of calming down before an unexpected medical diagnosis, of learning from the Chernobyl disaster or the Amanda Knox trial, of stopping deadly epidemics and victims of judicial errors, of studying our past to save us a worse future, from knowing how many snails there are in a garden. The latter, asked by his son, pushed the prestigious mathematician Kit Yates to try to find ways to explain the applied magic of numbers that describe our life and that of the planet. Everything on this planet can be articulated through mathematics, and yet this is not a book for mathematicians. Nor is it a regular math book. It is a book about how they help us understand the world, society, life