Math Without Numbers

This illustrated tour explores the structures and patterns of math. The only numbers in this book are page numbers. This book is a vivid, conversational guide to abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which are surprisingly easy to grasp. It upends conventional math approaches, inviting readers to think creatively about shape, dimension, symmetries, proofs, and their connections.

Unlike classic math allegories like Flatland or Douglas Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach, this book goes beyond numbers like pi or zero to questions like: how many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Author Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly pattern recognition and keeps surprising us with useful real-world connections.