Title: Needs to read Bill Dunham
Review: This had such promise...but never materialized. Havil is obviously enchanted with Euler--who wouldn't be?--but he fails to explain the material, and seems to have failed to proofread his book.In Dunham's Journey Through Genius, the explanations are clear and step-wise. I read it with a thick pad of paper and a pen--I don't really trust anyone--but it was all workable. Havil states things unclearly, so it's far from obvious just what he's trying to show. The discussions are unfollowable, at least to me.Reading as much of this as I was able to stand is a lot like finding out that there's no Santa Claus.
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