This fun book is a great way to discover the wonder of maths without the need for calculators, integrals or graphs. Each page has a bite-sized factoid, covering topics from “How to prove that you’re the Pope” and the “Maths of high-heel shoes” to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.

In the words of U.S. mathematician William F. Osgood “The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.”