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Adam Spencer's Big Book of Numbers: Everything you wanted to know about the numbers 1 to 100 by Adam Spencer
3.0
My uncle gave me this book for Christmas last year, and it's taken me until now to pluck up the courage to read it. Really, it would have been a much better gift for my younger brother, the structural engineer, because the archaeologist/museum curator/librarian of the family unsurprisingly doesn't like maths.
I know. Shocking behaviour. But there you have it.
I dropped maths at the end of year 11 and have never regretted it, even for a second. So understandably, this book of maths facts about the numbers 1-100 was more than a little outside my comfort zone. At the end of it? I still don't like maths. I didn't do any of the quiz questions. I skim read chunks of it because I just wasn't interested. I struggled through basically every chapter.
But. There were odd little factoids on each page that made me go "Huh". And Adam's enthusiasm for his subject matter is obvious throughout. So while I didn't PERSONALLY enjoy this book, if you're a fan of maths you'll probably enjoy this one.
I know. Shocking behaviour. But there you have it.
I dropped maths at the end of year 11 and have never regretted it, even for a second. So understandably, this book of maths facts about the numbers 1-100 was more than a little outside my comfort zone. At the end of it? I still don't like maths. I didn't do any of the quiz questions. I skim read chunks of it because I just wasn't interested. I struggled through basically every chapter.
But. There were odd little factoids on each page that made me go "Huh". And Adam's enthusiasm for his subject matter is obvious throughout. So while I didn't PERSONALLY enjoy this book, if you're a fan of maths you'll probably enjoy this one.