I recently received this book, and I’m enjoying it very much. It looks at the (usually hidden) existence of maths in literary works. Some of it I already knew, such as the mathematical basis of parts of Alice in Wonderland, but other parts have been a revelation. For example, I didn’t know that the number 42 is hidden in Alice in Wonderland, which makes one wonder if that’s what inspired Douglas Adams. 

Reading this book has inspired me to hide a number in this article, as I mentioned at the beginning. I’ll write a fuller review once I’ve read the whole thing.

In the meantime, it inspired me to hide a number within this post on my Eclecticism site. Can you work out what that number is?