The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "mathematics."

This book is an original, lively, interactive guide to the three main branches of theoretical mathematics – topology, analysis, and algebra – which prove to be impressively understandable. It overturns the conventional approach to mathematics by encouraging everyone to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and the infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how all these concepts fit together. Readers are thus offered a free exploration among the unique pleasures and unsolved mysteries of this highly significant field of knowledge.

Like the classic allegory Flatland, first published a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, forty years ago, there has never been a book quite like Mathematics Without Numbers. A plethora of popular science readings have dealt with numbers such as pi, zero, or infinity. This book goes much further by posing questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is there something bigger than infinity? Are mathematics real? Child prodigy in the field, Milo Beckman explains why mathematics is primarily about pattern recognition and how it continually surprises us by revealing unexpected and useful connections to the real world.