A visual tour of mathematics More than 1000 coloured illustrations Striking and surprising topics from arithmetics to topology

Georg Glaeser is professor of mathematics and geometry at the University of Applied Art in Vienna and the author of numerous books on computational geometry. Konrad Polthier is professor of mathematics at the Free University of Berlin and the DFG Research Center Matheon. Springer has published a number of his books on mathematical visualization as well as entertaining videos on mathematics, including the prizewinning MESH and the collection of films from the MathFilm Festival 2008.