Title: Mostly Excellent But Sometimes Silly
Product review: I agree with prior reviews that the book is fun to read and, to the degree that it sticks with describing the wonderful, mysterious properties of numbers and the symbolic understanding of those properties, it's top notch. Occassionally, however, new age wishful thinking takes over. For example, as evidence of the cosmic significance of the number eight, it is noted that the sum of the angles in an octogon add up to 1080 degrees, the same value as the radius of the moon measured in miles. There are a number of other similar cases in the book when one feels that the author is really stretching in order to make a "significant connection." That said, the same enthusiasm that leads the author onto thin ice also makes the book a fun introduction to the romantic and mysterious aspects of mathematics.
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