Popular Mathematics

A #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERExplore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author o...

'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help ...

‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch and passion for both ...

While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't avail...

The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be Wr...

On the trail of a couple of missing alpacas, disaster-prone Tom Winscombe has somehow ended up at an online gambling convention in Las Vegas. With...

An innovative and appealing way for the layperson to develop math skills--while actually enjoying it Most people agree that math is important, but...

An exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematicsBy any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous state...

Think of a number between one and ten.No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An entertaining tour that will change how you see the world' Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply HiddenIs there a...

'The best book on codebreaking I have read', SIR DERMOT TURING 'Brings back the joy I felt when I first read about these things as a kid', PHIL ZIM...

A readily understandable exploration of how figures are badly reported or deliberately misrepresented everywhere from political arguments and brief...

A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of maths Sunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson...

Why do so many of us struggle to remember the maths we were taught at school? The answer is that we can successfully memorise things for a short pe...

Math is universal, but it’s also the least understood and most undervalued subject taught in school. Is This Math?: Number Problems for Word People...

Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature’s Top 10 Books...

The vast majority of statistics books delineate techniques used to analyze collected data. The Joy of Statistics is not one of these books. It cons...

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 ...