In The Enigma of Numbers, Lance Storm challenges our obsession for organising and quantifying our world with an absorbing exposé of the shadow side of quantity—number as quality. In Storm's hands, qualitative numbers are mysterious symbols, giving rise to puzzling patterns and uncanny coincidences. His journey takes us from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic, through philosophy, arcane religious symbolism and pre-science to the number archetype of the psychologist C. G. Jung, which grounds this work