The highest found (at the time of publication of the book) was 2 I also liked that Bellos does not revert to hyperbolic fan's zeal to inspire the same passion in the reader.

By working with correspondences between infinite sets he characterized some infinite sets as countable (aleph), and others as non-countable (beth).The title is enough however, to put off my non-mathsy girlfriend, who accused me of being a "geek" for reading it. I did struggle with some of the ideas but very often when I asked my husband to explain I found that the author explained the whole thing in the following paragraph. But if showmanship is not your cup of tea, then there's a really good critical examination of Pascal's wager, an exploration of the wonders of Pascal's triangle and of course, a fitting end to the book with a mind-mangling (a term I learned from this book) discussion of Cantor's various infinities. g. there are no straight straight lines passing through the north pole and that are parallel to the equator).

He has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford, and is a former South America correspondent for the Guardian . Alex Bellos attempts to engage the general public in mathematics by describing maths in a way that anyone can understand.The discussion of the Hilbert Hotel, Cantor and infinity was very difficult to grasp but I imagine I am not the only one. Mathematicians are familiar with the form as represented by Professor Daina Taimina's model constructed from crochet work.