Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of essays explaining the fundamentals of the most important maths concepts you really need to know. Richard Elwes profiles the groundbreaking and front-of-mind discoveries that have had a profound influence on our way of life and understanding.

From the origins of counting some 35,000 years ago, right up to the very latest breakthroughs – such as Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and Cook & Wolfram’s Rule 110 – Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs tells a story of discovery, invention, painstaking progress and inspired leaps of the imagination.