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Book is of excellent quality and would highly recommend
As a topdown thinker ive always struggled with the bottomup approach most math books have of teaching you all the formulae with... Read More
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It doesnt dumb anything down for you but it doesnt assume any advanced knowledge either
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There is also a timeline if you want to see it all at one glance
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Enjoyed the books so much i bought the entire series after initial purchase of the elements
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He would not put it down at christmas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This history gives a summary of events in math that the editors think will be of particular interest to the young or to older folk who want to see the fun and frivolous side to math that engages us all with its curious puzzles and problems
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It is a strange and joyous game that we see opened up before us in this book
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Each editor has done his or her homework quite nicely and presents informative sometimes extremely eyeopening material even for an old jaded mathematician like myself
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
On the other hand when the authors do discuss the luminaries they mention many of the important names like newton gauss riemann hilbert or von neumann that really must be named even if the account focuses on nonacademic sides of math