The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes 1st Edition by Ian Stewart (PDF)

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Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze—a maze in your head—a maze of ideas, a maze of logic. And that maze in your mind is a powerful tool for understanding an even bigger maze—the one of cause and effect that we call “the universe.” That is its special kind of magic. Real magic. Strange magic. Infinitely fascinating magic. Acclaimed author Ian Stewart leads you swiftly and humorously through the junctions, byways, and secret passages of the magical maze to reveal its beauty, surprise, and power. Along the way, he reveals the infinite possibilities that arise from what he calls “the two-way trade between the natural world and the human mind.” If you’ve always loved mathematics, you will find endless delights in the twists and turns of The Magical Maze. If you’ve always hated mathematics, a trip through this marvelous book will do much to change your mind.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐It has arrived just like it was said in the description. I am very satisfied. Thank you.

⭐I guess I did not carefully review this book . This is NOT a maze puzzle book. IT is a math book. There are no mazes to solve like what is shown on the cover. That is deceiving. It should not be put in the MAZE puzzle book section. As it says… it is a “see the world through math eyes” I guess meaning a math calculations and solutions book. Not what I was expecting.

⭐If you are already familiar with math, then this book won’t be all that interesting to you. It doesn’t go into too much depth about the mathematical principles behind the concepts it discusses, and it doesn’t involve all that much actual math.This book is really targetted towards people who never really saw math as anything other than another subject they hated in school, and it seeks to change their mind.I was never that much of a “math person” before I read this book, and I just saw math as another subject in school, and I got average grades in math, and that was all it was to me.This book taught me how to “think like a mathematician”. I started to find myself actually liking math, and lo and behold, my grades even improved.I highly recommend this book for anyone who has an ill view of mathematics, and would like to improve their general experience with it.You might even find that you actually like math once you start looking at it as something besides a bunch of useless numbers, or a difficult class to get past.

⭐Other reviewers have criticized this book for its lack of detail and mathematical depth. Although that may be true for the experienced mathematician, this is an EXCELLENT introduction to the world of recreational mathematics. This book shows that math can be fun and useful and explains it in a way that anyone can understand. I often wondered, when I was younger, where logic tied in with math… I loved logic games and puzzles, things labeled as “math games” but I hated “math” — arithmatic is totally lame. This book completely bridges the gap between logic games and mathematics and submerses the reader in a whole new, wonderful world. However, if you are already familiar with this world it may feel kind of like watching Seseme Street — entertaining, but attempting to teach things you learned long ago. Either way it’s an entertaining and educational (for the non-mathematician) romp in the frivolities of mathematics.

⭐The content in this book is suitable only for beginners. If u think that u are quite familiar with recreational mathematic, this book is quite tedious and have no new topic.

⭐The kindle version of this book is let down by appalling proof-reading. For instance, the calculation to determine of th.e day of the month on which 1 million days of the Sosigenean calendar would fall is correctly stated, but the wrong answer is given (22 August instead of 22 September). Another example is the calculation of a Fibonacci series which correctly starts off by referring to the golden number phi, and then uses a zero in the remaining parts of the explanation, including the neat trick of dividing by zero……..I deleted the book from by kindle and re-downloaded it, in case the original download had been faulty, but the second download has the same faults as the original.It’s a pity, because there could be interesting items, but the kindle version is too untrustworthy to be worth spending any time reading.If it could be updated, I would again be interested, but for the present all I can do is delete it to free up some space for more reliable books

⭐I downloaded this as a freebie on kindle out of pure curiousity.I found most of this book easy to read and follow, and learn’t a few things along the way. It has certainly made me look at things differently!If like me you don’t have a good mathmetics knowledge but want to learn some more, then this could be a good starter book before moving onto more complicated things.

⭐I got this for my Kindle. It is very detailed telling you about patterns and series etc which it develops during the course of the book. For me I got a wee bit bored after a while and confess that I did not finish it. If you are an A level maths student you may enjoy it more than I did -and I have a degree in Engineering!

⭐There are some interesting nuggets on mathematics in this book but it’s not as easy as it’s made out to be in the blurb. This is more for people who are already interested in maths and want to find out more how it relates to the world. If you enjoy maths, this is a good book. If not then I don’t think this book will change anything for you.

⭐An interesting book which when I started reading I thought it may be aimed more at children but as the booked progressed more and more parts made me start to think harder and when finished I felt that it has taught me something and entertained me as well.

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