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Title: An amazing book that is sure to be a classic
Review: ...I ran out and bought this book and couldn't stop reading it. It is amazing, revelatory, important, gracefully written and often extremely witty. After reading this book you'll be able to impress your friends by doing ancient Egyptian math--even if you're not particularly mathematical. Lost Discoveries is one of those rare books: a "big" book that deserves to be a classic and a part of everyone's liberal education. Teresi is a generous and even-handed writer, never ponderous or dogmatic, and he makes a convincing argument that up until now we've been missing half our intellectual heritage--and a rich one at that. The ancient Greeks did not have a monopoly on intelligent thought; and it is inspiring and deeply moving to learn how much we owe to Sumerian, ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, and mesoAmerican geniuses. Everyone intelligent person should read this book!
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