One to Nine : The Inner Life of Numbers

from sdmcrae

I couldn't get into this book! For me it was a seemingly disjointed mishmash of elusive mathematical/numerical references and not interesting enough to compel me to put the energy into tracking them down or working through them. Maybe I would have done better if I had more of a mathematical backg...

from aliay

Call it dorky airplane reading-- I haven't got past the first chapter, but so far it jumps from topic to topic, from idea to idea. It's just having fun. While it might not be superbly rigorous or thorough, it is written accessibly-- it's something I see a high school teacher handing a math/scienc...