It got me interested in magic squares . This book admittedly is not laid out in an obviously systematic way but i m not sure that matters. it got me interested in some things that i thought ...
Surprise: the ego trips a fuse. Never before have I felt the urge to advise amazon buyers not to buy a book. But there's a first time for everything. Sadly, this book is an intellectual and ...
Absolutely Ingenious.. This is Professor Dawkins' finest piece of work. Not only does he provide his own knowledge and ingenious thinking, but he also ties together the works of Darwin, Hami...
Book spoiled by author's arrogance. This book is very badly written. The author's arrogance comes across in the preface when he claims he dismissed his editors suggestions to make his style ...
Excellent book. When I was a young man, I embarked on a degree in mechanical engineering. This was about 30 years ago. In the first year alone we had to study about eight different subjects...
When Cambridge mathematician Andrew Wiles announced a solution for Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles h...
Fascinating. A fascinating book. On the face of it, it is about statistics, but actually it is about something far deeper - how we perceive and interpret the information that affects all our...
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Fascinating, but flawed. The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy is an interesting look at the history of mathematical discoveries surrounding the prime numbers. It's a tough topic thoug...
Clear, Very interesting, the most important mathematical ideas are covered. This is a great book; It goes into sufficient detail on all the topics, and introduced and explained to me to a fe...
