All this extra reading is good but in the end all they will really care about is your ability to do maths and not how many books you read.....so I would focus on that!
Thats exactly my thought since i havent read any yet!!!!
They don't though. Anything you get from reading maths books is just an exposition, not the actual subject itself.
Depends on the book, surely? For example, Littlewood's Miscellany is definitely a "reading book" rather than a textbook, but there's some quite genuine mathematics in there too.
I prefer Ian Stewart though because he doesn't simplify it down to where you have notes in the book telling you what x^2 is, his books contain readable high level mathematics
I'm currently reading one of his books now "taming the infinite" some stuff I don't know about but so far a really good book
I'm currently reading one of his books now "taming the infinite" some stuff I don't know about but so far a really good book
ahh i loved that book First maths book i ever read. If anything, i found the parts about the historical side of maths the most interesting, eg the Babylonians Hexidecimal system, and Tartaglia's formula for cubics (to quote a few)
ahh i loved that book First maths book i ever read. If anything, i found the parts about the historical side of maths the most interesting, eg the Babylonians Hexidecimal system, and Tartaglia's formula for cubics (to quote a few)
Sorry to be picky but it was sexagesimal, not hexadecimal
What is Fermats last theorom about? Is it worth reading or does everyone read it so it wouldnt make you stand out?
I'm gonna risk it and say it's about the wonderful french man i think pierre something fermat and his last theorem? I am yet to read it yet actually - it took like 300 years(?) to solve the theory and I would assume the book is about uncovering it?