A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of maths Sunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize
Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. He has worked for the Guardian in London and Rio de Janeiro, where he was the paper's unusually numerate foreign correspondent. In 2002 he wrote a critically acclaimed book about Brazilian football and in 2006 ghostwrote Pelé's autobiography, which was a number one bestseller.
‘Original and highly entertaining'
*Sunday Times*
‘Will leave you hooked on numbers'
*Daily Telegraph*
‘A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all,
never dull relationship with numbers'
*New Scientist*
Outstanding ... The style is laced with humour, but at all times,
the star of the show is mathematics
*Ian Stewart, Prospect*
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