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Packed with puzzles
and paradoxes,
mind-bending
concepts and
surprising solutions,
Weird Maths is a
book for anyone
who is interested in
maths or in popular
science.
About the Author:
Agnijo Banerjee is a
child prodigy of Indian
origin – he has an IQ
of 162, the highest a
human can have (the
same IQ as Einstein’s
and Stephen
Hawking’s). He took
Higher Maths in his
first year of
secondary school,
scoring 99%, the
following year he
passed the Mensa
JULY 2018
test scoring the
maximum possible IQ
for the test of 162,
and in his third year
scored 100% in
Advanced Higher
Maths. More recently
he has taken part in
international maths
competitions, such as
the Balkan
Mathematics
Olympiad in May
2018, as part of the
six-member British
team. Later this year,
Agnijo starts his
maths degree at
Trinity College,
Cambridge, where so
many great
mathematicians of the
past have studied and
taught, including
Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Weird Maths is his
first book, co-written
with his tutor David
Darling. David was
born in Glossop,
Derbyshire and has a
PhD in astronomy
from the University of
Manchester. For the
past 35 years, he has
been a freelance
science writer and is
the author of nearly
50 books on subjects
such as cosmology,
physics, philosophy,
and mathematics. His
website, The Worlds
of David Darling, has
been a widely used
online resource for
the past 20 years. He
also tutors students in
maths and physics
and this how he first
met Agnijo at the age
of 13.
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