From the Book - First American edition.
Introduction: Why our skill with numbers is the greatest human achievement of all
Numbers : how we founded civilisation
Geometry : how we conquered and created
Algebra : how we got organised
Calculus : how we engineered everything
Logarithms : how we launched science
Imaginary numbers : how we fired up the electric age
Statistics : how we made everything better
Information theory : how we created the modern era
Conclusion: Maths is a many-splendoured thing.