100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know - John D. Barrow
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 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know - John D. Barrow
 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know - John D. Barrow ... Head LtdNewest Review: ... it's a motley collection of short articles of all things mathematical (and that includes algebra, topology, logic, as well as ... more ... quite a bit of physics, a sprinkling of statistics, probability theory, number theory and more), its driving power is, I suspect, to show how mathematics and, more generally, mathematical thinking, can be used to explore and even answer questions from all areas of life.
It's not a book of number puzzles for hopeless maths geeks (in fact, hopeless maths geeks will be probably familiar with quite a few of phenomena described in 100 Things), but a light hearted, entertaining but never dumbed down survey of mathemati...more |
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know - John D. Barrow: Intelligent Stocking Filler (375 words)
by - written on 29/03/09 (Very useful, 102 readings)
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I love those collections that appear at Christmas: '77 places to visit before you die', '39 facts you would never suspect about a Reliant Robin', '101 tips for making your wife a bedroom goddess...' Some of these collections have not much utility beyond stocking-filling and providing a mild diversion from the Boxing Day boredom, the best are genuinely educational as well as fascinating. John Barrow's 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know is somewhere in between. Unashamedly idiosyncratic, it's a motley collection of short articles of all things mathematical (and that includes algebra, topology, logic, as well as quite a bit of physics, a ... Read the complete review
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