Reviews
"Succeeds in bringing to the fore an aspect of mathematics that some popularizers miss--that math is not a science of monuments, but a living tradition as vibrant as physics or ethics or law, one in which new monuments pop up weekly and old ones are retrofitted for purposes inconceivable to their creators."--Seed Magazine, "Remarkable contribution to the pop-math genre."--SIAM Review "Succeeds in bringing to the fore an aspect of mathematics that some popularizers miss--that math is not a science of monuments, but a living tradition as vibrant as physics or ethics or law, one in which new monuments pop up weekly and old ones are retrofitted for purposes inconceivable to their creators."--Seed Magazine, "Remarkable contribution to the pop-math genre."--SIAM Review"Succeeds in bringing to the fore an aspect of mathematics that some popularizers miss--that math is not a science of monuments, but a living tradition as vibrant as physics or ethics or law, one in which new monuments pop up weekly and old ones are retrofitted for purposes inconceivable to their creators."--Seed Magazine
