Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity

Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do.

Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers. Steven Connor discusses how numbers play a part in all aspects of life, from dealing with crowds to jokes, music, and painting. Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, now available in paperback, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers.

The book opens up for the first time the richness, variety and subtlety of how we do things with numbers and, just as importantly, how they do things with us.