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The third volume in this successful popular maths series is dedicated to more everyday phenomena, with a mathematical background or unexpected twist: being the author a maths teacher at the Architecture faculty, this time the flavour is artistic.
The reader will learn why Gaudi’s magical square is actually a fake; how Escher managed to reproduce infinity in a circle; the secret behind the success of Artemide’s Tolomeo table lamp; how different weft and warp determine every possible kind of tissue; the reason why a soccer ball has exactly 60 vertex, 12 pentagonal faces, 20 hexagonal faces, and 90 edges...An entertaining read for the lay reader, students, and teachers.

More menu to stimulate your appetite for numbers: Painting; Sport; Design & Furniture; Buildings; Babies; Music

Silvia Benvenuti, PhD, is a Geometry researcher at the Architecture faculty, University of Camerino. Her scholarly work focuses on low dimension topology. She specialized in science communication at SISSA, Trieste, and has a long time experience as a teacher for undergraduate students. She is the author of academic papers, high school and university text books, and of a popular treatise on non euclidean geometries (Alpha Test, 2007).