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His previous book “Matematics in the coffee break” gave a taste of how numbers and formulas are not only everywhere in our lives but can also be very entertaining. Maurizio Codogno is back with a feast of mathematics, with lots of courses and within everybody’s reach. Organized in four sections (starters, first course, main course and dessert), just like a lunch, this book reveals new appetizing mathematical titbits. One morsel after the other, we will learn which system to use to tile a floor with pentagonal symmetry, which tricks to use to amaze friends and be faster than a computer and that saying “I know that you know” is not the same thing as saying “I know that you know that I know that you know.” Then there are quizzes, elections, lotteries, vaccinations and slices of pizza in a tasty ‘maths salad’ for all palates.

A mathematician and IT specialist by training, Maurizio Codogno is also a translator, blogger (at xmau.com and on the Post) and author of Matematica in pausa caffè (Codice Edizioni, 2014), Matematica in relax (Vallardi, 2011) and for 40K Matematica e infinito (2013), Fantamatematica (2014) and Alfabeto matematico (2015).