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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Not the target audience but I still enjoyed the second half a lot! Professor Strogatz has an amazing ability to turn mathematical concepts into visualizable stories and I loved studying his Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with the same method. Recommend for anyone who doesn't like math.
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An digestible way to learn math using scenarios that are understandable and applying real life applications. It’s good for someone who wants to learn math, has struggled with math, is advanced, or anywhere in between. For me, I knew almost all of these concepts already, but I did learn some new things and it was a good refresher. It goes from elementary school to high school to college level math, so you learn more complicated things as you go along. For a math book though, it did lose me at some parts, but I still found it engaging and enjoy to read.
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Book is awesome. Reduced .25 stars for not including more topics.
I really liked this book. For the majority of the book I could understand the concepts discussed quite easily. However, some concepts I had to read several times over because I did not quite understand the explanations. I really liked how the author communicated maths and got me inspired to learn maths.
Really enjoyed this book. Came across a few "aha" moments here and there and almost all of them, I think, will be very accessible to people even without a reasonable mathematical background. However, I think the book was a bit too short, and felt more like a collection of essays rather than a proper book. Now moving on to Strogatz book on Calculus in the hope that what he missed here, he will have detailed there.
This is the second book from Strogatz I’ve read (the first being his Infinite Powers book on calculus) that I’ve really enjoyed.
Math is a topic that is so easy to explain in a dry, boring manner, so I love how Strogatz peppers the mathematical concepts with their real-world applications.
As someone who strongly disliked math through all of my school and college years, Strogatz actually makes me wish I just had better and more inspiring teachers. All the concepts here are easy followed.
I do recommend avoiding the audio book version though. As good as Jonathan Yen is, it’s difficult to picture the formulae in here.
Math is a topic that is so easy to explain in a dry, boring manner, so I love how Strogatz peppers the mathematical concepts with their real-world applications.
As someone who strongly disliked math through all of my school and college years, Strogatz actually makes me wish I just had better and more inspiring teachers. All the concepts here are easy followed.
I do recommend avoiding the audio book version though. As good as Jonathan Yen is, it’s difficult to picture the formulae in here.
The book is pretty simple to read. Steven does build a case that mathematics is interesting and is everywhere. But the book lacks a certain depth. I mean, the book does not offer much to the people who already appreciate mathematics. Most of the chapters just touch the surface and leave the interesting part for the notes section. I guess I'm not the right audience for the book and hence 3/5 stars.