Alex Bellos, the head of Williams-Sonoma’s Rejuvenation and Mark and Graham brands, is the new president of the West Elm brand, the company announced on June 5. He succeeds Jim Brett, who left to take ...

IN Alex's Adventures In Numberland, Alex Bellos romped through the history of mathematics and considered humanity's relationship with numbers. In this follow-up, he continues his journey with ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Williams-Sonoma Inc.’s Brooklyn-based West Elm brand is looking for a new president. Alex Bellos is leaving West Elm to take on the co-CEO and board member roles at Food 52, ...

From the appeal of seven to a shadowy textbook-writing cabal, Alex Through The Looking Glass is a whistle-stop tour of entertaining areas of mathematics WHAT is your favourite number? I don’t have one ...

‘The thrill of maths,” writes Alex Bellos beside a particularly elegant proof, “is the moment of instant revelation … when suddenly everything makes sense. It is immensely satisfying, almost a ...

Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton identified a complex problem, and addressed it with a deceptively, elegantly simple solution. How to address the growing problem of boys stopping reading, while keeping ...

As far as new leaders go, Alex Bellos is a familiar one for West Elm. Bellos took the helm at the popular modern furniture retailer last summer after former head Jim Brett left to replace J. Crew's ...

Anne McElvoy discusses the Winton Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum and explores how maths skills are increasingly needed for jobs. Plus Alex Bellos on maths puzzles. Show more Anne McElvoy ...

The Ancient Greek Thales discovered the laws of triangles, enabling us to measure the Pyramids of Giza precisely without climbing them Credit: Photo: Reuters The trouble with maths, for those of us ...

Portland's Rejuvenation has undergone a series of transformations since Jim Kelly founded the company 1977 as a salvage shop, but the company's new general manager is working to return the brand to ...

The Ancient Greek Thales discovered the laws of triangles, enabling us to measure the Pyramids of Giza precisely without climbing them Credit: Photo: Reuters The trouble with maths, for those of us ...