This week, Sara Lodge counts the ways that mathematics influenced writers from Byron to Trollope; and Russell Williams on the transformative power of rites and rituals.

'The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature', by Stefanie Markovits

'The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic', by Alan Moore and Steve Moore

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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