A mathematician’s discourse: Fragments

(From the back cover) 

Could we buy three tickets to the cinema if there was no prior agreement on what that “three” means? Aren’t we applying, perhaps unknowingly, Euclid’s geometry when placing a rack on the wall? Is it possible to compose music without taking into consideration the intimate relation that exists between mathematics and the scales and intervals?  
In A mathematician’s discourse: Fragments, Pablo Amster offers possible answers to these questions and invites the reader to find its own ones, rediscovering mathematics on a journey through a universe of multiple ramifications. In this approach to subjects as diverse as the set of natural numbers, the infinite, the problem of limit and the continuum, random sequences and logarithms, the author explores some of the connections between this discipline and the variety of other discourses that make up the complex fabric of human thought.  
This particular itinerary across the mathematical universe includes a wide range of stops: literature and psychoanalysis, history and philosophy, music and gaming. And the journey is shared with a plurality of voices and points of view: mathematicians and philosophers such as Fibonacci, Poincaré, Russell and Leibniz, writers such as Borges, Eco, Poe and Kafka and composers such as Bach.  
The invitation to undertake this adventure can be "customised": the book is not divided into chapters but sections and digressions; bits or pieces of a lattice that one can explore freely, namely move forward, go back or just skip to taste, creating a reading plan in accordance with the preferences of each reader.  
“After all -says Pablo Amster- perhaps the whole mathematics is nothing but the result of a long and uncertain introspection”.