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Title: This book is terrible
Review: I purchased this book based on the Einstein quote on the back cover, and clearly the man has his limitations. This book is powerfully uninteresting. The author is pedantic and uninspiring. The great ideas of mathematics are in there of course, but it is hard to imagine them being more poorly presented. I highly recommend reading Bell's Men of Mathematics if you want to gain some insight into the great ideas of mathematics written by someone of a broad mind and sound judgement who happens to know how to write. Of course, if you want to be a better mathematician, bust out your Calc book and do some problems. This book tries to be both narrative and teacher's aide and ends up being neither.
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