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# The Number Mysteries: A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life (MacSci) Paperback – May 24, 2011

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## Customer Reviews

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    For those who once were charmed by the rigor and mystery of mathematics but who have lost touch with the discipline
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2011*

Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford.  He also has appeared on television programs presenting mathematical subjects for general lay audiences.  In THE NUMBER MYSTERIES du Sautoy tries to do much the same thing - to show a general lay audience how mathematics underlies or explains much of everyday life:  from the number of petals on a flower, to dragon noodles, to the construction of soccer balls, to three-dimensional teabags, to the Beijing Olympic Swimming Center, to roulette wheels, to Sudoku, to the Mayan calendar, to the ISBN code number for this book and all others published since about 1970.  Along the way, he discusses such mathematical concepts as perfect numbers, Fibonacci numbers, fractals, and prime number codes.Du Sautoy is enthusiastic and obviously knowledgeable.  His writing style is relatively informal and, for the most part, comprehensible by the moderately intelligent and interested layperson.  But I sense that the audience for THE NUMBER MYSTERIES is somewhat limited.  The book surely is too simple or superficial for those who already have a strong background in mathematics.  As for those with little or no interest in mathematics, I doubt that the book will kindle one.  So it appears that its audience will be primarily those who once were charmed by the rigor and mystery of mathematics but who have lost touch with the discipline - and rather regret that development of life.I count myself in that group, so I like reading a book like this every few years.  Among its ilk, I found THE NUMBER MYSTERIES to be in the middle of the pack.  One complaint I have is that the book does not include, for those who are intrigued by one or more of the mathematical concepts mentioned in it, references for further, more in-depth study.  Another complaint, albeit having nothing whatsoever to do with its content, is that the cover of the paperback edition is downright ugly; it is perhaps the most unsightly book cover in my library.

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    Great content - poor implementation on Kindle
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2010*

I'm a fan of Marcus du Sautoy and wanted to buy this book as soon as it was available via kindle on the ipad. Whilst the book content is great, and would be worthy of 5 stars, the implementation on kindle is really quite poor. The main text breaks in some bizarre ways, and some illustrations are completely missing making the book a very difficult read.Perhaps an updated version could be made available to fix these errors?

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    Math can be applied to everything
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2012*

Good overview of some of the interesting aspects of math. While there are some heady equations in the book, they are sparse and not required for understanding the concepts outlined. I'd recommend this book for the non-mathematician that is looking for some thought-provoking numerical concepts.

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