Reading One to Nine



Have you checked out or picked up a book you didn't feel certain about, but were intrigued just enough to pick it up?

Last week, while I was in the library, I was looking for Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges because that is the novel "Imitation Game" was based on. Unfortunatly the book was checked out, but I did find a book "One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers" by Hodges.

Mind you, I'm not much of a Math person. I enjoy the simplicity of math because for me, I see math as always having a definite answer. At the end of the day, everyone in the room has to agree that 2+2=4. No questions asked, no interpretations. Which takes a lot of the fun out of it, I think that's the whole reason I enjoy History and English.

Anyway, I checked out the book. First I read a trilogy by Lauren Oliver and now I'm also reading "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger (a great book so far). I just started Hodges' book yesterday.

Currently, I'm on chapter two so I'm not even half way through the book, yet I have so many questions.
This book is probably the best book I've ever read about numbers so far.

It includes allusions to Biblical stories, musicians like Bach and Bob Dylan, and other scientific/mathematical works.

It relates math and science in a way that I never did before.

Now the quantum model and complex numbers have a relationship I wasn't even aware of mentally.

Now my head is full of questions like how electrons relate to technology, how crystallography relates to not just atoms but integers, how zero fills nothing and everything by itself.

This book has just opened my mind to amazing questions and I'm only on page 65.
Highly recommended.

What is an amazing mind-provoking book you've enjoyed? Comment down below!

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