Alex Bellos

Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here’s Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.


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Patterns of the Universe
A Coloring Adventure in Math and Beauty
by Alex Bellos, Edmund Harriss
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

Math is at the heart of many natural wonders and has an abstract beauty all its own—in the silhouette of a snowflake, the spiral seeds of a sunflower, and the symmetry of the Sri Yantra mandala. From the 4-D hypercube … Continue reading →

Visions of the Universe
A Coloring Journey Through Math's Great Mysteries
by Alex Bellos, Edmund Harriss
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

For curious minds throughout history, math was truly an art. In Visions of the Universe, you can pick up right where Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, and other luminaries left off—by coloring 58 exquisite patterns inspired by great discoveries in math: … Continue reading →

Can You Solve My Problems?
Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles
by Alex Bellos
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world’s best brainteasers from the last two millennia. Armed with logic alone, you’ll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then—with just a dash … Continue reading →

The Original Area Mazes
100 Addictive Puzzles to Solve with Simple Math—and Clever Logic!
by Alex Bellos, Naoki Inaba, Ryoichi Murakami
Paperback | $8.95 US / $11.95 CAN

Once you match wits with area mazes, you’ll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value. Just Remember: Area = length × width Use spatial reasoning to find helpful relationships Whole numbers … Continue reading →

Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers
Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain
by Alex Bellos
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example … Continue reading →

The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book
Perple_ing Le_ical Patterns to Unmi_ and Ve_ing Synta_ to Outfo_
by Alex Bellos
Paperback | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious … Continue reading →

Puzzle Me Twice
70 Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong
by Alex Bellos
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

From mathy mind-benders to eye-fooling illusions, here are 70 perplexing puzzles of every kind. But they all have one key thing in common—a wrong answer that seems so right! In Puzzle Me Twice, you’ll have to think—and think again—to overrule your … Continue reading →