The Book of Numbers is a wonderful book about, well, numbers. And lots of them. From ancient ways of writing numbers to Gaussian integers to surreal numbers. The authors are some tough mathematicians, too. John H. Conway is Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, an authority in game theory and group theory, and the inventor [...]
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Book Review: Prime Obsession
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics is a book about the Riemann Hypothesis, posed by Bernhard Riemann in 1859. As the book title says, it is one of the greatest unsettled mathematical conjectures remaining today. It is among David Hilbert‘s list of twenty-three mathematical problems and one of the seven [...]
Book review: The Pleasures of Counting
The Pleasures of Counting is a book about people working with mathematics and challenges they have faced. The book has 544 pages with a total of 19 chapters and 3 appendices. It contains a lot of material and is split into five parts: The uses of abstraction, Meditations on measurement, The pleasures of computation, Enigma [...]
