As Easy as Pi

Subtitled Stuff about Numbers that isn’t (just) Maths.

As Easy as Pi is a hotchpotch of facts about numbers, some quite interesting in the Stephen Fry style, others quite tedious.

The book is subdivided into several sections: numbers in language, in fiction, in culture, in religion and mythology, and in maths and science.

The topics range from films with numbers in their titles (why?), through an explanation of why buses come in threes (easy when you’re told how) to the strange story of the Indiana Pi Bill (where snake oil sales techniques mix with mathematics).