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Alex Bellos

Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

Math

Andrew Shore (Major-General Stanley) in The Pirates Of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan @ London Coliseum in 2015 Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, but I meant the other type of English major: a person who studied English at university.

American maths author Ben Orlin has a new book out aimed at this demographic. (More on this below.)

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