Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in `real life. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, were all doing maths almost every minute of every day. n n n n David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee go in search of the perfect labyrinth, journey back to the second century in pursuit of `bubble maths, reveal the weirdest mathematicians in history and transform the bewildering into the beautiful, delighting us once again. n