The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: The Pope Made Me Write This Book
Day 1: Arithmetic
	1. Setting up the Big Bang
	2. Games Numbers Play
	3. More Games
	4. Searching for their Roots
	5. An Irrational Universe
	6. Journey Into the Imaginary
Day 2: Geometry
	7. The Universe Needs its Space
	8. Settling The Complexes
	9. Fun And Games on the Plane
	10. Two Questions About the Plane
	11. Space or Bust
	12. An Alternative Geometry
	13. Crocheting Your Universe
	14. The Fourth and Higher Dimensions
Day 3: Algebra
	15. Outsourcing
	16. The Joy of X
	17. The World of Polynomials
	18. The Y of Things
	19. The Algebra of Distance
Day 4: Patterns
	20. Patterns and Perfection
	21. Nature’s Soft Spot
	22. The Golden Ratio
	23. Nature’s Relation to Maths
	24. Maths and Beauty
	25. Fractals
	26. The Why and How of Nature’s Patterns
Day 5: Physics
	27. A Universe Run by Laws
	28. Time and Space
	29. The Curvature of Spacetime
Day 6: Infinity
	30. A Finite Universe of Numbers
	31. Close Encounters of The Infinite Kind
	32. The Matching Game
	33. Battle of The Cardinalities
	34. A Smile on Georg’s Face
	35. The End of Mathematics
Day 7: Emergence
	36. Setting Nature Free
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index