by Johnny Ball · EDICIONES SM · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467505634
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«¡Alucina con las mates!» is the mathematics popular science book by Johnny Ball, published by EDICIONES SM in hardback (96 pages, in Spanish).
It proposes a playful journey through the universe of numbers, with explanations, riddles, puzzles, magic tricks, mazes and logic challenges. It includes curiosities such as the history of zero, the reason an hour lasts 60 minutes and a day 24 hours, and the 1089 trick for reading minds.
Published on 20 January 2006, it belongs to the «Alucina» collection by SM. The Spanish translation is by Marisa Rodríguez Pérez.
Aimed at readers aged 11 to 16, especially those who enjoy numbers, riddles and mathematical puzzles.
Graham Thalben Ball, professionally known as Johnny Ball, is an English television personality, children's television presenter, writer and populariser of mathematics. Ball regularly appeared on British television for several decades, predominantly on the BBC, from 1967, featuring in or presenting programmes such as Play School, Think of a Number, Think Again, Think It ... Do It, Think...This Way and Johnny Ball Reveals All. He has also published a number of non-fiction books.
