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By halfway through this, I will confess to having to admit the maths had the better of me, and calculus will need to remain the obscured art it has been for some time. I found it very difficult at school, so I suspect this is more me than the writing. I did enjoy the history here, and I know understa......more

I recommend this book to anyone with interest in mathematics. However, I believe it would be difficult to follow without a university level understanding of mathematics. It is interesting to learn more about a general history of these concepts, something that I have not learnt much about in my under......more

Disappointing. I’m not clear who the target audience is - early on she explains some quite basic maths but from the middle onwards the level of maths knowledge required is rather higher. Unlike Carlo Rovelli, for example, she is not able to distil the essence for the layman but instead awkwardly str......more

Thoughts While Reading * Algebraic symbolism appears so natural today that I rarely think of a time when it was not the rule of the land. Yet, it took a lot of work for human beings to abstract from a tangible way of thinking (geometry) to algebraic thinking. This seems to me one of the most importan......more

10/10! Coherent, flowing story able to captivate a wide range of audiences. With such a large number of (digestible and context driven) equations, this read was a truly joyous experience as a student of physics.......more