Math Book Reviews Wanted

Sol at Wild About Math has been doing a couple of neat things to help build or support the math/math ed blogging community.

First, he offered to promote your website/math efforts through guest posts.

Now he's offering to help you connect with publishers to review books of interest to you.  I've taken him up on it already... against his better judgment?  Surely you will do better than I could.  Drop him a line - his address is on the About page.

From classic Peanuts at comics.com.

Why Pi?

Quick book review.

Why Pi? is a DK picture book/encylcopedia by Johnny Ball. The author sounds as if he was the Mr. Wizard of Great Britain in the 70s, and is the author of many books, several of which are math and science related. But this is my first of his.

Xavier (9) says: it's really good. I bow to whoever suggested it. It was fun and funny.

Ysabela (10) says: it's kind of funny, but in an interesting way. It's got a lot of information, but is definitely enjoyable reading. And it has Egyptians, awesome.

John (45) says: the book was unexpectedly thorough. It has a lot of excellent math and science history, from several ancient cultures, and deeply explores the concept of measurement as it pertains to many topics. It is a great read, and a solid reference. Despite this exposure coming from the library, I will be looking to purchase it. As the kids have pointed out, it is long on humor, and deep in breadth. (Both difficult quantities to measure.)