Farewell to Curiosity

               Speaking of Hersh, he has yet completed another masterpiece written by his hand and inspired once again by mathematical cataclysms and foundation of ideas as he has always been. Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities is certainly holding true to its title. When I read this book, it doesn’t even start with an organized table of contents. It’s not even a table of contents if I’m to judge it visually and technically. It’s a list! It’s not just an ordinary list containing incomprehensive phrases.

               As I read along the pages of familiar formats and fonts as in Hersh’s other book that we first made a book review on, I was slowly beginning to understand the book. It’s not a book of characters and plots and plot twists. It does not connect or interlink previous and next chapters. So basically, it contains all that can be read in a mathematical perspective. You there, gamers and logic lovers! This book’s for you. It’s interesting, those different games. Added to that are follow-up questions on various and highly diverse topics which are significantly rooted on old and new mathematical principles and theories alike. There are a lot of games to choose from, you don’t have to start and proceed in a chronological order. Pick at random and you’ll see that anywhere in this book, you’ll be sure to get away out of boredom’s way. You’d be killing time all through summer, if you’d like to put it that way.

               Finally, I can say that this book summarizes the previous books we reviewed. It reflects all the information, points and stories of the mechanisms explained from previous books. All the teachings we got from those mathematically related books are applied in this book. It’s as if it takes you to testing your knowledge of how much you’ve learn so far besides and beyond the conventional mathematics we’re taught. Nevertheless, each game profoundly explained all its questions and answers. Yes, it holds answers which are concentrated on the last chapters of this book. Honestly, you’re going to appreciate more of all that you learn as you see them came into action by participating with the mechanics and instructions of this book. This is really fun. Some are a bit challenging and that definitely adds to the thrill of reading this. Aloha! You've got the key to every lock in this book. Enjoy and say farewell to curiosity.