Popular Mathematics

We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit theory, and ...

Finalist of the 2022 PROSE Awards How fast can you calculate? Would you like to be faster? This book presents the time honored tricks and tips of ...

Why is 7 such a lucky number and 13 so unlucky? Why does a jury traditionally have '12 good men and true', and why are there 24 hours in the day an...

Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world? Robert Banks not only entertains such ideas but, better yet, he suppl...

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles These are previously unpublished quality Su Doku grids from The Times, and help t...

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles The latest volume in the hugely popular Killer Su Doku series from The Times, fea...

The latest volume in the hugely popular Killer Su Doku series from The Times, featuring the highest-quality puzzles with an extra element of arithm...

Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more abstract, complicated, and ...

"This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable"...

The easy way to understand and retain all the concepts taught in pre-calculus classes Pre-Calculus All-in-One For Dummies is a great resource if yo...

***A Strong Words 2023 Book of the Year***'A highly enjoyable and serendipitous read!' - Rob Eastaway, bestselling co-author of Headscratchers: The...

Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Da...

Million Dollar Maths is an invaluable guide to the straightforward and outlandish mathematical strategies that can make you rich. ____________How c...

In the words of the great poet Senghor, Cedric Villani makes the bold claim that Mathematics is the Poetry of Science. Perhaps paradoxical to some,...

How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life offers readers guidance in managing the fear, freedom, frustration, and joy tha...

Data science has never had more influence on the world. Large companies are now seeing the benefit of employing data scientists to interpret the va...

Your expert guide to mastering the numbers behind the mysteries of modern mathematics. What with the mysteries of infinity and imaginary numbers, t...

'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler,...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'Packed with practical examples and insightful wisdom. . . A highly enjoyable and effective guid...

In 1988 The Mathematical Intelligencer, a quarterly mathematics journal, carried out a poll to find the most beautiful theorem in mathematics. Twen...

Discover football's astonishing hidden rules in The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally*Fully updated with a new World Cup chapter* Foot...

An essential guide to recognizing bogus numbers and misleading dataNumbers are often intimidating, confusing, and even deliberately deceptive—espec...

Like it or not, maths is a part of everyday life. Whether we learned only basic arithmetic, or went on to study calculus and beyond, we need it, an...

A 'difficult' subject so simply taught - brilliant book' - Amazon 5 star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This is a great refresher book! Lots of worked out examples, ...

Do you need to gain confidence with handling numbers and formulae? Do you want a clear, step-by-step guide to the key concepts and principles of st...

If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that’s because you didn’t have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.***As seen on Monkman &...

The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you nee...

We live in a world of numbers and mathematics, and so we need to work with numbers and some math in almost everything we do, to control our happine...

The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you nee...

A ‘mathemagical’ colouring book, with 60 patterns to colour and 10 more that YOU create!For those who ponder the most intriguing questions in maths...

We underestimate the importance of luck in our lives. We think too highly of the golfer who wins the British Open and, if he loses the next tournam...

Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up th...

'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan EllenbergMatt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey th...

Instant Mathematics pulls together all the pivotal mathematical theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'ch...

This fascinating book explores the mathematics involved in all your favourite sports.  The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a unique and fascinat...

Maths is everywhere, in everything. It’s in the finest margins of modern sport. It’s in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every...