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	• Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers Jan Gullberg W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 - 1093 pages average customer review:based on 61 reviews view larger image
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It's not the only book about mathematics ...

Having purchased and enjoyed Jan Gullberg's "Mathematics: from the birth of numbers" (some of it being quite easy to follow, other parts being quite demanding of my forgotten maths studies from 30 years ago) I feel compelled to mention a German publication (in German) the "Kleine Enzykolpaedie: Mathematik" (Little Encyclopaedia of Mathematics). I purchased this second-hand in the town of Ansbach (near Nuernberg) for the price of about $US8.00. It is thorough (over 800 pages), far more comprehensive than Gullberg's book, but perhaps slightly out of date, having been published in 1972. And, of course, it is in German, which makes it relatively inaccessible. I don't know if there is a more recent edition. Perhaps someone from Amazon could help find out ?

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Simply a beautiful book

The author of this book is not a professional mathematician, but rather someone who has deeply fallen in love with math and wants to share his passion. His enthusiasm is infectuous. I came away from this book thinking that perhaps math really is the purest, most profound, most beautiful of all human endeavors. I know that many mathematicians feel that way, but I had never before experienced it myself. Immersion in this book produces a state of total mental engagement that I normally reach only when reading Shakespeare or playing Bach. Be aware, however, that a fairly high level of mathematical competency is required for full comprehension, and that for non-mathematicians like myself the book is only partially accessible. But I don't view that as a drawback: the book makes you want to study and develop your technical understanding sufficiently to truly enjoy the more esoteric topics the book discusses. That's what happened to me. I find myself reading up on calculus and going through old college textbooks of mine. It must be a pretty good book that can accomplish that!

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Praise from a Mathphobe

I hate mathematics. My wife, a former National Merit scholar and professional cryptographer, enjoys working out advanced equations of all varieties. Both of us appreciate this book. Gullberg combines historical overview and practicality as he advances through the universe of numbers and equations. I have enjoyed reading his commentaries and anecdotes which appear throughout the text. My wife has turned to it for understanding problems related to her work. This is a book for school or home library, that belongs on any shelf where there are people eager to learn or in need of an in-depth understanding of algebra, calculus, trigonometry, topology, or more advanced studies. It is worth the price and will not quickly become obsolete like so many other scientific texts.

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The Definitive Mathamatical Text

If you need a book that you can use from Kindergarden to Graduate School, this is the one, at well over 2" Thick this book covers everything from basic addition to Differential Calculus. The author Jan Gullberg, speaks to you as your personal Mathamatics professor, or at least it seems that way, and makes the hardest most complex topics appear the way it really is, simple and fluently understandable. Math has such a bad reputation for being hard to understand, hmmm I wonder why, would it be because as a Math teacher I would first tell you to figure out X(6763)(8276)+98797823^3 without giving you the History and the resoning that led others to finding the answer. Or should I tell you fisrt where this concept came from, why it was needed, and how did our ancestors nessesity to find out the reason lead them to the ultimately making a new math form. A good example is Calculus. Newton needed a more powerful fom of Math, Algebra did not work well and traditional Euclidian Geometry could not find to thing we needed to mesure. Thusly the Math of Velocity was born, or rather discoverd. This book is worth more then 5 stars, I would say 10 bare minimum.

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A swiss army knife of math books

I purchased this book a while back, and I can say it is well worth the money. It has everything you every want to remember about math but don't know where to find it. I am using this book to help me study for my Computer Science course in alogrithmn. It has been a while since I did any calculus or algebra, and this book refreshes what I need to remember. Come in handy for sure. A keeper.

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