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A review by laplaine
The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
4.0
Well, logging this book will pretty much seal my fate as a nerd. However, this was a good read and gave a brief history of the big math ideas in consumable form: Mobius Strips, set theory, Snell's law, relationship triangles, etc... I think my family will be happy I burned through this quickly so I stop talking about math problems at the dinner table.
Here's my favorite line(s) from the book, because it relates to some of the things I'm thinking about at work.
"But battling obstacles can give rise to great beauty - so much so that in art, and in math, it's often more fruitful to impose constraints on ourselves. The same is true of all math that's been created to help you find the shortest way from here to there when you can't take the easy way out." -page 236
You should go read this book.
Here's my favorite line(s) from the book, because it relates to some of the things I'm thinking about at work.
"But battling obstacles can give rise to great beauty - so much so that in art, and in math, it's often more fruitful to impose constraints on ourselves. The same is true of all math that's been created to help you find the shortest way from here to there when you can't take the easy way out." -page 236
You should go read this book.