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A review by platypusengima
Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics by Alex Bellos
3.0
I can't really remember much about this book (I finished quite a few weeks ago with limited internet connection) but I'll give it a shot.
Alex's book is very good if you want to dabble your toes in many aspects of maths, which is really good. Sometimes there would be topics I loved, sometimes I would have to pull myself through them. But that's more to do with the maths. It doesn't require much maths knowledge at all: I've just finished my AS's* (doing both maths and further maths) and I understood most of it (some bits were still confusing). And then my dad, who knows less about maths than me, also read it and seemed to understand most of it. Bar a few questions (but that's what the internet is for).
So long and short if you want an intro into some more complex maths, this is probably one of the best places that you can start.
*You do AS's two years before univeristy. So one year of AS's, one year of full A-levels, and then BOOM off to uni.
Alex's book is very good if you want to dabble your toes in many aspects of maths, which is really good. Sometimes there would be topics I loved, sometimes I would have to pull myself through them. But that's more to do with the maths. It doesn't require much maths knowledge at all: I've just finished my AS's* (doing both maths and further maths) and I understood most of it (some bits were still confusing). And then my dad, who knows less about maths than me, also read it and seemed to understand most of it. Bar a few questions (but that's what the internet is for).
So long and short if you want an intro into some more complex maths, this is probably one of the best places that you can start.
*You do AS's two years before univeristy. So one year of AS's, one year of full A-levels, and then BOOM off to uni.