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
If there was one book that was going to be compulsory for the nation to read it would be this one
- Evan Davies,
A magical mystery tour . . . Philosophy, religion, magic, history and basic sheep-counting are gather together in Bellos’s bag of numbers
The Times
Revealing and insightful
Independent
A wholly original, beautifully written book about mathematics that does its subject justice but is so widely accessible that it will please everyone regardless of their numeracy
New Scientist
An entertaining and accessible account of how maths underpins our lives. Maths will never appear so forbidding again
TES
It is to be hoped that the uncountable delights of Bellos’s book, its verve and feeling for mathematics, convey its enchantments to a new generation
Times Literary Supplement