He was educated at Hampton Park Comprehensive School and Richard Taunton Sixth Form College in Southampton.

[1] He went on to study mathematics and philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[1] where he was the editor of the student paper Cherwell.

[citation needed] Bellos's first job was working for The Argus[1] in Brighton before moving to The Guardian in London in 1994.

They wrote: “Compelling...Alternately funny and dark...Bellos offers a cast of characters as colorful as a Carnival parade”.

The book Alex's Adventures in Numberland was published in 2010 and spent four months in The Sunday Times' top ten best-sellers' list.

Bellos doesn’t shrink from delving into equations, which should delight aficionados who relish those kinds of details.” Bellos presented the BBC TV series Inside Out Brazil (2003),[20] and also authored the documentary Et Dieu créa…le foot, about football in the Amazon rainforest, which was shown on the National Geographic Channel.