I dunno, its possible that I just needed this popular science romp in the middle of all the juvenile fantasy I've been reading, but, I thoroughly enjoyed it. My biggest gripe is that I wasn't ready for it to end.I particularly enjoyed the early chapters. Here the author examined how the human m...
Other reviewers are probably right –you enjoy this book much more if you are not afraid of the few charts and formulas you will encounter. If you have no scientific background, and still enjoy math, my advice is to force yourself to understand as much as possible –it might be useful in the future...
A quite wonderful book, if a little erratic. It didn't do statistics quite enough credit, but that's my bias perhaps, statistics being a favourite of mine due to my scientific career choice. Bellos embellishes the mathematics with history and travel anecdotes which both lighten the tone and provi...