PYTHAGORUS AND THE GREAT ESCAPE OF NUMBERS

That's one miscalculation too many! One, Two, Three, and Four have escaped, leaving the universe on the brink of chaos. Only Pythagoras can restore the harmony of the world, revealing to the numbers the ancient secret that punctuates their dance... A great tale about mathematics, harmony and the beauty of the universe. From 9 to 99 years old! A tribute to the lover of wisdom! A symbol of knowledge and the love of wisdom, Pythagoras is a scientist and mathematician as legendary as it is enigmatic. His curious gaze is not afraid to consider each of the elements that make up the world. What structures it? That is the question ! In an initiatory journey to Crotone, walking with the numbers behind the thick curtains of the temple of Delphi, the reader is invited to discover the great Pythagorean concepts: mathematics, music, the universe, order, beauty. The thought of Pythagoras, a mathematician with a touch of magic, is made accessible in this marvelous story recounting with a lot of mischief, stories that are sung and danced to the rhythm of the heartbeats of the planets and of the whole universe. The author: Through her bewitching pen, Louise Guillemot takes us on a journey with the great thinkers of Antiquity: Pythagoras, and soon Parmenides, Homer... whom she meets daily in her research work at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The illustrator: A graduate of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, Anna Griot works in the fields of publishing, education and illustration. She co-founded the magazine Cargo in 2014, then in 2017 the La Fabrique bleue educational tools creation studio. She lives and works between Strasbourg and Paris. 64 pages - paperback jacket - format 14 x 21 cm