Oxford University maths don David Acheson has written 1089 And All That (OUP, £8.99) ‘to bring the joy of mathematics to the general public’. He starts by showing a few simple tricks, then takes the reader into deeper ideas, even chaos theory. It’s not for the novice (quite a few equations) but it ends on a high note.
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