The Number Devil

Bringing together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the geometrical wit of Flatland, and spicing it up with his own dry humor and passion for the magical properties of numbers, Hans Magnus Enzensberger deftly explains the basic concepts of math. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, encounters a sly, clever number devil who introduces him to the wonder of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that mysteriously appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without end. As Robert - and the reader - venture deeper and deeper into this amazing dreamworld, ideas take flight and once-familiar or difficult mathematical theories and principles become crystal clear.