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A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age
Maybe someday
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3/100Critics
75/100Scholars
Author:
Alec Wilkinson
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
July 12, 2022
A metaphysical exploration into math's deepest mysteries and conundrums at the crux of middle age.
What The Reviewers Say
I kept waiting for the kind of happy reconciliation that never quite comes. Instead we get Wilkinson declaring that math 'as a brute, malign and mechanical thing.' He confesses that by the end of his journey, he was still consumed by 'an indignant resistance'.
Look, now: Buried amid this summer's beach reads, your Grishams and Hilderbrands, is a literary treasure.
With his smooth writing, ingenious descriptions, and analogies, this motivational book should be a welcome gift to many readers who have spent decades avoiding math because of early frustrations with learning it in school. Wilkinson explains many mathematical topics in an easy, clear, and understandable way.
Inspiring reading for anyone seeking to overcome intellectual defeat in any realm..
