Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History - Eli Maor

Eli Maor is a former professor of the history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago. His books include the internationally acclaimed To Infinity and Beyond , e: The Story of a Number , The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History , Music by the Numbers , and with Eugen Jost, Beautiful Geometry (all Princeton). Eugen Jost is a well-known Swiss artist whose work is strongly influenced by mathematics