Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life by David DarlingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A quarter century ago, writers such as Martin Gardner and Clifford A. Pickover so excited my interest in the mathematical -- especially the speculatively mathematical -- that their works fueled me though undergraduate and graduate studies. I am pleased to see these two authors continue in the tradition of telegraphing excitement to lay readers and embracing deviations from the norm: “A teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematics.” ...
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