Chris Waring

Chris Waring was born in London, UK. After a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College and a short yet disastrous career as a headhunter, he became a maths teacher. Since then he has taught small children and Oxbridge candidates and everybody in-between.

His writing career began with I Used To Know That: Maths, where he put his years of teaching experience to good use to create possibly the first ever readable maths revision guide.

In 2012 his second book, From 0 To Infinity in 26 Chapters successfully tells the stories of the people, places and events behind the creation of the mathematics that has made the world as we know it.

His third book, Maths in Bite-Sized Chunks, picks up where I Used To Know That: Maths left off. Delving a little deeper into juicy nuggets of mathematical goodness, he none-the-less guides the casual mathematician through some interesting tidbits.

2020 sees the release of An Equation for Every Occasion, a non-serious maths book for the non-mathematician. Through a series of hilarious scenarios, he explains how mathematics can save the day in everything from a zombie apocalypse to producing the seating plan for a spy's wedding.

Chris is married to the composer Morag Galloway and they live in York.