I am just reading Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos, Bloomsbury 2010, subtitled Dispatches from the wonderful world of mathematics, and finding it fascinating - sort of like Bill Bryson's writing in The short history of nearly everything... full of information and enthusiasm, with an eye for quirky detail, interesting characters and humorous turn of phrase...
Here is a link to Alex Bellos' website http://alexbellos.com/ - lots of interesting info - even for a non-mathematician like myself - check out his August post about the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2010, which has been taking place in Hyderabad, India.
Here is a review of Alex's book by David Bodanis, author of E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, in The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/alex-bellos-adventures-numberland-mathematics
One for the secondary school library and to tell maths teachers about...
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