Here's Looking at Euclid

"Here's Looking at Euclid" is a brief history of mathematics that begins by looking at the Munduruku, a group of about 7000 people living in a rainforest of the Brazilian Amazon who have no words in their language for numbers larger than five.  The author, Alex Bellos, who is a British journalist who majored in mathematics and philosophy, then takes the reader through the development of counting. The introduction of the concept of zero, different methods of counting and calculating, the number pi, the development of algebra, rational numbers, irrational numbers, some interesting series, the basics of probability, and finally a look at infinity.  He has fun with mathematics, especially in the chapter entitled playtime.  The book is extremely well-written and is both understandable to those without a strong math background and interesting to those well-versed in mathematics.  The reader will also learn the fascinating origin of the terms stock and stockbroker.