Alex Bellos

Can you be friends with numbers, or with fractals, cones, and curves? What is the world’s favourite number? What are negative numbers? What are the wonders behind the Game of Life program? What is mathematical about the first roller-coaster loop? Where might you find the world’s most highly-numerate community? Any other number-related questions?

Author of Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, bestselling ghost-writer of Pelé’s autobiography, and former foreign correspondent for the Guardian, Alex Bellos, with a degree in Mathematics & Philosophy from Oxford, has now written Alex Through the Looking-Glass, in which he explores our turbulent, delightful, and useful relationship with numbers.