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originalhal's review
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
A good, accessible breakdown for the layman and academic alike of what is a very complex, almost arcane scientific field. I would recommend this even if you aren’t particularly interested in the sciences, as the historical thread running through the book is interesting on its own.
mattm's review
4.0
Not an easy book, but it succeeded in bringing some really challenging higher-order math principles to a layman like me in a consciousness-changing way. I had read a lot about the curvature of space-time in books about Einsteinian physics, but I guess I always felt it was a conceptual analogy and never grasped that our universe is indeed finite and has a "shape," and then to contemplate what mathematical tools we would need to figure out which of several shapes it actually is. The insights into mathematics history and culture were also really enlightening.
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