About the Author

Lancelot Thomas Hogben(1895-1975) was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frogas a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacked the eugenics movement and popularised books on science, mathematics and language. During the Second World War he had responsibility for the British Army's medical statistics. Two of his books were bestsellers: Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen.

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'It makes alive the contents of the elements of mathematics' Albert Einstein

'Deals with maths in a way that they never taught us at school' Daily Express

'If only I had been brought up on this book, the sense and meaning of mathematics would have been made clear to me... The book combines utmost brilliance with extraordinarily good common sense' A. L. Rowse

'A great book of first-class importance' H. G. Wells

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