100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts (Hardcover)

from nbmars

Barrow, a Cambridge University mathematics professor, is also a popularizer of mathematical concepts and advanced physics. This book is a pleasant little collection of 100 short essays on everyday phenomena that people commonly encounter without understanding them. As Barrow demonstrates, the und...

from readafew

While the title 100 Essential Things is a bit of hyperbole, it is still a fun and interesting read. I happen to like math so I was able to follow the math when it was explained but over half of the chapters there was little or no actual math involved. There was even 2-3 math 'tricks' that non-mat...

from tintinintibet

The book is comprised of 100 short chapters of 2-3 pages in length. I spent a week reading this book (it feels more like reading a blog where the author's goal is brevity), and a day later....I can probably name 5 memorable topics, and 2 were interesting enough for me to wikipedia the idea presen...

from signature103

100 unconnected unordered blog-entry-like articles explaining the world, but not, as the subtitle suggests, always using mathematics. Fun stuff but the articles were not always put together well. I have found other similar books more stimulating in terms of content and style. Nonetheless it was a...