One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers

“A lively new book . . . [that] readers will enjoy sprinting through.”—Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times Book Review What Lynn Truss did for grammar in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Andrew Hodges has done for mathematics. In One to Nine, Hodges, one of Britain’s leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, filled with illustrations, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layman. Star...