Rich with intriguing historical facts and anecdotes, as well as profiles of famous mathematicians like Euclid and Lewis Carroll, You Are a Mathematician, brings to life basic arithmetic and algebra, as well as more challenging geometry, calculus, and even number theory. Writing in his always entertaining style, David Wells introduces such brain-tingling topics as the Königsberg bridge problem, the Game of Life, cryptograms, Koch snowflakes, and Rabbi Moses' box. He even shows how simple math helped eighteenth-century military commanders figure out how many cannons their enemies had stacked up next to their cannonballs. From tidbits on the earliest mathematics of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the latest popular online mathematical games, You Are a Mathematician takes readers on a sometimes bizarre, always educational and wildly entertaining journey.

· Contains over 100 stimulating brainteasers and challenging conundrums

DAVID WELLS (Beckenham, England) is the author of the bestselling Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, which New Scientist called "a fascinating, strange and probably unique book that I will look at again and again." He is a former editor of Games and Puzzles Magazine.