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atlastheninth's review
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I received a free ARC of this book and here's my honest review.
I am not sure who the target audience of this book is. As a math student who's currently doing there master degree and who only has a mild interest in history, I can say that it's not me.
It says in the description that "The Gravity of Math offers an insightful and compelling look into the power of mathematics […]" and I suppose it does? But without actually doing any maths. It explained the most basic concepts like what a vector is or rotation symmetry in detail but everything above that is just superficially touched upon. If you already know some differential geometry you get some nice connections to physics out of it but definitely no new maths. If you don't know anything about it however, I feel like this will just confuse you.
But then what exactly is this book about? Well, The history of gravity really. It's just 250 pages of this mathematician did that in this year, then this physicist did that, than this one did that, and then in the next year this mathematician did that and so on. And frankly, I don't care.
I wanted maths, I got history. Did I learn some things? Yeah, sure. But it was also quite boring.
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