Australian Мэтт Parker (family. 1980) began as a teacher of mathematics, and then moved to England and began to tell about the favourite object on the channel of BBC and in a newspaper Guardian, and then thought of the format of public lectures on that tells about the thorny problems of mathematics very clear and with the large dose of humour. The performances of Мэтта unchanging use enormous success, and he is well-known in the world of шоу-бизнеса as a "Стенд-ап-математик". Book, that you get on the hip, self-possessed in the same style: an author is able to talk simply about difficult, here nowhere погрешив against scientific exactness. And even a reader, infinitely distant from numbers, forms and formulas, hardly will withstand before the irresistible charm of mathematics.