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★★★★★
Entertaining and interesting - but don't get the Kindle edition....
An entertaining, well-written and informative book - suitable for folks with little or no background in math, but also for those who know a fair bit of math (you will still learn a lot, I suspect). Amusingly written, with a pleasing authorial voice. One serious problem with the Kindle edition: the extensive and informative notes at the end of the book are not properly linked within the body of the text - no reference links or footnotes numbers at all! So, you don't know which topics in a given chapter have notes, and you don't even know about the existence of said notes until you stumble on them at the end. So, go for the paper edition, *not* the Kindle edition. Whoever does the technical editing for Kindle editions of non-fiction is doing a rotten job - several other books I have purchased for the Kindle have had similar issues. I am tempted to only use the Kindle for fiction, not for non-fiction. Too bad Amazon doesn't allow one to rate the content separately from a rating on the digitization for the Kindle; I gave 5 stars for content, but would have rated the technical aspects of the Kindle at best 2 stars....
May 2015 · Kindle Store · verified purchase
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The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
4.5★ · 2,187 ratings, as of 2023
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