Sum Stories
Chalkdust
Robin Wilson is a mathematician and maths communicator whose latest book Sum Stories (Oxford University Press, Waterstones) came out in 2025.
Style
Each chapter of this book tells the story of one equation (or the story of a “sum”—hence the book’s title). These equations come from all over maths and the book is a really nice introduction to a wide range of areas of maths.
Control
The book is well written and would be understandable to most readers who are doing their GCSEs, or who remember what.