Number of things: Pythagoras geometry and humming strings
This book is about things that can be described with numbers. It tells the story of how Pythagoras speculated with the meaning of numbers, how his ideas evolved and spread through many subjects - music, astronomy, physics, geometry, religion - and how they form the basis of modern mathematics.
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