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Title: Kindled an Obsession in Me
Review: I browsed a bookstore in 2007 and bought it after a skimming. Since then, I have read and re-read it many times. I vowed to some day understand everything in it. I bought a copy of Maple and recently of Mathematica, so I could reproduce every mathematical expression in the book and then some. My first victory was when I reproduced "The Derbyshire Spiral", as I began to call the logo on the cover. I have now reproduced Derbyshire's elucidation of the random Hermitian matrix and its strange behavior, as well as most of the other math in the book.I could go on describing other adventures in math that were inspired by this book. Having flunked as many math courses as I ever passed,long ago,the clear presentations by Derbyshire were a pleasant surprise! The historical context makes for highly interesting reading as well whenever the math gets to be too much.If the idea of prime numbers has any attraction to a casual reader at all, this book is a must buy.Mauri Pelto
