Each chapter of Hans Magnus Enzensberger鈥檚 The Number Devil (Granta, 拢6.99) recounts a dream encounter between a 12-year-old who hates mathematics and the number devil. Their slick tricks bring the subject alive, but you may want to keep a calculator to hand. The calculator may also come in useful when analysing the data in Women in Science (Harvard University Press, 拢12.95), in which Yu Xie and Kimberlee Shauman explore why so few women opt for a science career. They debunk plenty of myths.
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