5th Book Review
The book itself has no
any stories, moral, and so on but it is a pleasure and admiration. The
main component of this book is the history of mathematical research and
development which Stewart gave an insight into this discovery of copious Math
Theories and Laws.
Professor Ian Stewart started a notebook—a Math notebook
on his childhood years. According to him it was full of interesting math that
was not taught in school. His notebook grew to six one. Professor Stewart
filled his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, and factoids
intended for the adventurous mind.
The
nice thing about this book is that these book is about games, fun and the like
but it is full of intellectual history: Fibonacci series, Fermat’s Last
Theorem, chaos theory, the color problem, Zenos paradox, the square root of
minus one, celestial resonance, how did the Egyptians did fractions, how
Babylonian handled number and many interesting facts. Also you can find hidden
jewels of logic, geometry, and probability.
The book was interesting and full of knowledgeable
information that let the reader pick it up and read anytime. It is pack of
funny squirks of number patterns, this book is for the readers of all the
abilities who have an interest of numerical gymnastic. Dazzlingly collected
puzzles and stories with quietly understandable solutions and also
explanations. I got interested on the quote from this book and I quote “The
math you did at school is not all of it” but still “The math you didn’t do at
school is interesting.” It is fun that you discovered math outside the room and
make used of it. It is true that you will not rely all the math taught by
teachers but you had to be in depth and discovered it by your own. This book
was full of exciting peculiarities from Professor Stewart legendary cabinet.
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