- Published: 01/09/2008
- ISBN: 9781847080530
- 135x30mm
- 264 pages
The Number Devil
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Translated by Michael Henry Heim
Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher: he sets his class boring problems and won’t let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil, who brings the subject magically to life, illustrating with wit and charm a world in which numbers can amaze and fascinate, where maths is nothing like the dreary, difficult process that so many of us dread. The Number Devil knows how to make maths devilishly simple.
£9.99
Enzensberger has made Pythagoras the new Harry Potter ... explaining mathematical concepts in a clear and highly original way
Sunday Business Post
Hopefully, Mr Enzensberger's enterprising and imaginative book will play its part in rescuing some of Britain's children from a lifetime phobia of maths
Daily Mail
Children old enough to have encountered fractions and square roots will be fascinated by this book, as will their parents
Sunday Times
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Coming to America
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‘As a child in Germany I knew next to nothing about America.’ From 1998, Hans Magnus Enzensberger on the German view of America.
Essays & Memoir | Granta 42
The Great Migration
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‘For a long time there was greater anxiety in Europe about the consequences of emigration than of immigration.’ From 1992, Hans Magnus Enzensberger on migration. Translated by Martin Chalmers.
Essays & Memoir | Granta 33
Europe in Ruins
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‘At the end of the Second World War Europe was a pile of ruins, not merely in a physical sense; it seemed totally bankrupt in political and moral terms.’
Hans Magnus Enzensberger on Europe after the Second World War.
