This book, in the author’s own words, is “a journey through time from the Babylonian ‘sixties’ to fractals and fuzzy logic.” There are many such “from... to...” in the History of Mathematics. From the mysterious counting sticks of primitive people to the first “calculator” - the abacus. From the ancient Babylonian number system to the first practical maps. From ancient Greek astronomers to medieval painters. From illustrated medieval treatises to the “mathematical” surrealism of the twentieth century... But the book tells not only about the history of science. The reader will learn a lot of interesting things about the rise and fall of ancient civilizations, about modern astronomy, about the art of encryption and the tricks of codebreakers, about military strategy, navigation and, of course, about modern art, which certainly includes computer graphics and incomprehensible fractal patterns.