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acardattack's review
2.0
A rather dull book. I know it is old, but I've read older (math) books that were far more interesting. It isn't the material, it is the way it is presented. There is no enthusiasm for the topic at hand. Nothing flows, it feels like list of facts in paragraph form.
I know a book like this can't go too in-depth, but an in-depth look into one proof or problem of the greatest minds wouldn't be too much. Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem would have been nice. There are little to no proofs and this really disappointed me.
Journey Through Genius, The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Dunham), Number Theory and Its History (Ore) and Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Seife) are all superior in how it presents its material.
I know a book like this can't go too in-depth, but an in-depth look into one proof or problem of the greatest minds wouldn't be too much. Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem would have been nice. There are little to no proofs and this really disappointed me.
Journey Through Genius, The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Dunham), Number Theory and Its History (Ore) and Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Seife) are all superior in how it presents its material.
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