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book was a not a novel or a story to read, but a valuable one made for us to
enjoy in our leisure time. As people who are not Mathematicians, the book
presents a lot of facts about the most popular facts, games and puzzles with
the solutions purposely placed by the author for readers to understand them and
be able to solve them. I was really in such awe when I tried to look at the
solutions on the latter pages of the book. There are a lot of practicalities
presented in each that I never get bored and made me crave to solve for more.
It was also a great reference for me if I would like to impress some friends by
knowing something really good about Mathematics. However, I would just like to
highlight a few sections I just thought were really good:
First, in our past learnings in elementary and high school we have calculated
basic arithmetic in its standard form. However, the section on Curious
Calculations amazed me on how one could calculate lengthy arithmetic in just
seconds. Second, I have also discovered more from Pythagoras and his theorem
commonly encountered in Trigonometry. Stories about Leonhard Euler, The Witch
of Aghasi and Pierre de Fermat’s last theorem brought a lot of things new for
us. Lastly, the geometrical figures such as the Greek Cross, The Sphinx of the
Reptile and the Knots involving Topology brings one of us to recall one fond
moment in a Molecular Biology class as true enough, topology and the mechanism
of knots are evident in DNA since they are considered supercoiled most of the
time.
Areas of Mathematics such as Algebra, Statistics,
Arithmetic, Trigonometry, and Geometry are in the book and each are
well-represented by problems. The book is good for everyone to learn while
having fun at the same time. Had it not been for these Mathematicians who
labored and have devoted their lives to Mathematics, this practical world would
probably remain as one that is not understood by everyone. Indeed, they are
amazing for making complicated things simple.
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