How Life Reflects Numbers And Numbers Reflect Life

Alex Bellos will talk about his book Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life, his follow-up to the bestselling Alex’s Adventures in Numberland. In the course of the talk he will discuss his survey to discover the world’s favourite number, psychological responses to mathematics and how very simple rules can generate very complex behaviour. And other fun maths stuff.

Alex Bellos is the bestselling author of Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, which was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. He is the Guardian’s maths-blogger, and has worked for the paper in London and Rio de Janeiro as its unusually numerate foreign correspondent. He is currently a curator-in-residence at the Science Museum. His new book, Alex Through The Looking Glass, is out now and will be on sale on the night.