Dr Tomoko L. Kitagawa is a historianof mathematics at Oxford University. After a stint as a diplomat at the United Nations, she received her PhD from Princeton University. She has taught at Harvard University and has held research positions at UC Berkeley, University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute. A bestselling author in Japan, she was selected as one of the '100 most influential people in Japan' by Nikkei Business Publishing, and has appeared on Netflix, CNN, the History Channel and the BBC. Dr Timothy Revell is a science journalist and lapsed mathematician. He is Culture and Comment Editor at New Scientist and also currently runs their diversity internship scheme. He often appears on the BBC radio show 'The Naked Scientists'.
Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts * The Sunday Times * Great and highly accessible read – even for the less numerically gifted * i, ‘Top Non-Fiction’ * A delightful journey through some of the lesser known highways and byways of mathematics -- Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of The Man from the Future