<i>Math in 100 Key Breakthroughs</i> presents a series of essays explaining the fundamentals of the most exciting and important mathematical concepts everyone should know. Professor Richard Elwes profiles the most important, groundbreaking, and astonishing discoveries, which together have profoundly influenced our understanding of life and the universe in which it takes place.<br><br>From the origins of counting—traced back to more than 35,000 years ago—to such contemporary breakthroughs as Wiles’ Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and Cook & Woolfram’s Rule 110, this compulsively readable book tells the story of discovery, invention, and inspiration that have led to humankind’s most important mathematical achievements.