Thank you, it's sweet :) Sadly, my geek!boss does not, lol :) Sometimes, it pisses me off being a jack-of-all-trades in a specialist-biased world. I admire people who are brilliant at one thing, but jack-of-all-trades are useful too.
it can't do justice to the maths or the written word.
Indeed, it did not! It sounded verbose and obscure. And I do love interdisciplinary things when they create new perspectives, or make things clearer, but this book seemed to only create obscurity :)
It's cool that you loved maths enough to study it for fun :) To be honest, university maths is useless unless you're really really good at it. Otherwise you don't get it enough to do anything useful with it. But I still think medium level maths is very good, it teaches to think with subtlety but no flourishes, and I suppose all the more when you have to explain it back to other people!
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Date: 2011-01-19 12:25 am (UTC)it can't do justice to the maths or the written word.
Indeed, it did not! It sounded verbose and obscure. And I do love interdisciplinary things when they create new perspectives, or make things clearer, but this book seemed to only create obscurity :)
It's cool that you loved maths enough to study it for fun :) To be honest, university maths is useless unless you're really really good at it. Otherwise you don't get it enough to do anything useful with it. But I still think medium level maths is very good, it teaches to think with subtlety but no flourishes, and I suppose all the more when you have to explain it back to other people!