How many? So many

Since the earliest times scientists and philosophers have been dealing with the infinitely large and the infinitely small. There are questions that arise in all of us when faced with very large or very small quantities. In the modern world these observations become even more daily: billion-dollar economic maneuvers, imperceptible time records, Big Data or the size of elementary particles. This book proposes questions of individuals– amazed by the extent of the microcosm and macrocosm – and leaves the answers to the great scientists of the past. In this way, Archimedes speakes about sidereal distance and Emmy Noether illustrates the quantum world. An adventurous journey to measure the number of pages in a library and the thickness of microprocessors, feel the time passing between centuries and atomic clocks, imagine chess games and sequences of prime numbers, but also demographic statistics and temperature variations. This book is addressed to a curious audience, ready for playful storytelling.