Quote by Yōko Ogawa

“Finding a number before zeros—a story that never ends.”

— Hannan Sher

“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite…

— Ursula K. Le Guina

“If we use the Himalayas as an ink-tablet, the largest ocean as the ink-pot, the branch of the biggest tree of heaven as a…

— Acharya Ramananda

“He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the…

— Terry Pratchett

“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the…

— ryan fitzpatrick

“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw…

— Charles Kingsley

“I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but the computer…

— J.L. Merrow

“However, mathematics-inspired books such as Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (with its valuable, realworld lessons on subtraction) are fair game.”

— John Pearson

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise

“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication…

— Mark Twain

“My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin