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Curiouser and Curiouser

Advantages: Doorway to an infinite world.
Disadvantages: Wells could have written much, much more and still only scratched the surface.

Many people don't see the beauty and excitement of maths, often because they weren't introduced to it in the right way as children. This book can introduce adults and children alike to it in the right way. It starts with -1 and i (the square root of -1) a ...

rose_of_sharon 20.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers - David Wells

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