Popular and recreational mathematics

This fascinating book explores the mathematics involved in all your favourite sports. 

A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. 

This fascinating book explores the mathematics involved in all your favourite sports. 

A fiendish collection of over 100 super-tricky brainteasers from puzzle-maestros Rob Eastaway and David Wells.

An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. 

The perfect book to get kids out and about.

A fiendish collection of over 100 super-tricky brainteasers from puzzle-maestros Rob Eastaway and David Wells.

Whether it be one pound on the National Lottery or a million pounds on the turn of a card, the instinct to bet is the same. Over the centuries there have been many strange gamblers – and even more strange gambles – and in this unique collection of punts and punters, Graham Sharpe reveals fearless, flamboyant and fantastic flutters.

Puzzles have intrigued and entertained generations of children – and their parents – for over 2,000 years. Here is an irrestible assortment of 100 challenging puzzles. These brilliant brainteasers range from the neatly lateral to the downright perplexing.

With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a conversion and a tourist trying to get the best photograph of Nelson's Column?