The best new popular science books of 2026
30 December 2025
Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, says culture editor Alison Flood
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The algorithm that runs the world
8 August 2012
Its services are called upon thousands of times a second to ensure the world's business runs smoothly – but are its mathematics as dependable as we thought?
To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic
11 August 2010
Mathematicians are facing a stark choice – embrace monstrous infinite entities or admit the basic rules of arithmetic are broken
Fundamental secrets are tied up in knots
15 October 2008
For over 100 years, mathematicians have been grappling with the intricacies of knots – but recent discoveries could help us unravel the nature of reality
e: the mystery number
18 July 2007
Unearthing the secrets of the transcendental number known as e might answer some of the hardest questions about the physical universe
