M. : Publisher: Amphora. 2015. — 474 c. ISBN 978-5-367-03594-0 (Series) ISBN 978-5-367-03606-0 (Exp. 12), ED "Amphora" presents a new book collection "Popular Science. Books written by the most famous and respected scientists will be interesting and understandable not only to professional researchers of certain fields of scientific knowledge, but also to those who are acquainted with science for the first time. The main purpose of the collection is to popularize science and destroy the well-established opinion about the complexity of the presentation of all scientific, para-scientific and professional literature. The famous mathematician and linguist Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky talks about mathematics in such a way that even its most complex laws become understandable. He shows the place of the "Queen of Sciences" in modern culture, while explaining the main mathematical wisdom.