A Peek Inside Stewart's Cabinet

Ian Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities is a compilation of mathematical puzzles, jokes, facts, and other mathematical curiosities collected over his lifetime. This book is easy and fun to read since the entries are brief and easy to understand an example of this is his entry about global warming. However, the book doesn’t give moral and a main point that is why some of the entries are not very entertaining to read or you would lose interest in the topic.

The mathematical problems are stimulating and NOT easy to answer but still a fun way to learn things. Most of its problems covers the field of arithmetic, geometry, statistics and different theorems.

There is an entry in the book which made me wonder whether it was true or not or it was a joke and I just didn't get it. It says that “Pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians".

After reading the book, I was amazed with Ian Stewart’s love for mathematics for you can see it just by looking at this great collection of mathematical curiosities. Because of this I sometimes wonder where my love for mathematics when I was in elementary went and hid. I would definitely recommend this to other people, especially to those that wants to know mathematics more and in a different way.

BY: DAISIC DE ASIS BELLO