David Wells

DAVID WELLS is a British mathematician and writer who has published more than a dozen books on popular mathematics, puzzles, and recreations. His recent books include Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math, Games and Mathematics and You Are a Mathematician.

Wells is a Cambridge University mathematics scholar and former British under-21 chess champion. He has contributed articles to The Times Educational Supplement, The Mathematical Intelligencer, and The Mathematical Gazette.

When not writing, Wells works as a professional puzzle composer, game inventor, and puzzle editor. This hands-on engagement with mathematical play runs throughout his books, which include the Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers and The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles.

David Wells’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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