A review by cazmcdo
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos

2.0

I really liked the sections on number games and the problems of probability - but I've always been a statistics gal at heart. Discussions of base 10 versus base 12 counting systems were also interesting to me as they were before picking up this book, but if anything this book made me like it less. As someone who reads a lot of popular science books, I'd hoped to get a Mary Roach-esque journey through numbers, but Bellos very much fell short. More short than his labouring of the point of regression towards the mean would suggest. Disappointed.