From my past blog posts, I have
always expressed my hatred towards math. I don’t even understand how other people
find it fun. But after reading Ian Stewart’s “Cabinet of Mathematical
Curiosities”, I now understood that Math can actually be fun outside of the
classroom. You get to learn more exciting things outside than inside the
classroom. Oh, but this doesn’t mean that you should skip your classes and not
listen to your math teacher.
Ian Stewart has spent his years
collecting mathematical games, puzzles, stories and facts in his notebook. He
collected so much that he even filled his cabinet. “Cabinet of Mathematical
Curiosities” are made of some of his collections.
I actually tried solving some of
the puzzles and I had fun with them even if sometimes I get them wrong or I don’t
understand them. The explanations and facts he wrote was also interesting. I
like how it was explained why we “can’t” divide zero. If we had these on our
class, I think I would be very fun and exciting. Ian Stewart actually succeeded
in making us have fun. Overall this was probably the best book out of the five
we had to write a review about. I would also probably recommend it to my family
and friends.
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