The Puzzle of Language - with Alex Bellos

Are you a fan of mind benders, crosswords or logic puzzles? Mathematician Alex Bellos tests your puzzle skills with some of his favourite conundrums about language.
Alex' book 'The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book' is available now: https://geni.us/kOkQg
Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/nmDYM9HvA6E

To celebrate the launch of his latest title, The Language Lover's Puzzle Book, mathematician Alex Bellos presents a talk that will get your brain whirring.

The book features huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, introducing you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and Alex will test your puzzle skills with his favourite conundrums.

Alex Bellos is the author of several bestselling books of puzzles and popular maths, including Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking Glass and Can You Solve My Problems? He studied mathematics and philosophy at Oxford before training as a journalist, working for various national papers before ending up as South America Correspondent for the Guardian between 1998-2003. Returning to the UK he began to write about mathematics. He has a puzzle column in the Guardian and his YouTube clips have received 25 million views. Alex’s other books include two mathematical colouring books, Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life and the children’s book series Football School, which explains the world through football. His books have sold more than half a million copies worldwide.

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