The art of more: how mathematics created civilization

Introduction: Why our skill with numbers is the greatest human achievement of all

Numbers : how we founded civilisation

Geometry : how we conquered and created

Algebra : how we got organised

Calculus : how we engineered everything

Logarithms : how we launched science

Imaginary numbers : how we fired up the electric age

Statistics : how we made everything better

Information theory : how we created the modern era

Conclusion: Maths is a many-splendoured thing.