Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

                (book review)

The book written by Ian Stewart titled, “Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities” is a collection of intriguing mathematical games, stories, puzzles and factoids. It also included theories such as the “Chaos Theory”, introduced and discussed the lives of great mathematicians such as that of Pythagoras and Archimedes and some of the mathematical discoveries such as the Fibonacci number and Goldbach Conjecture.

As I browse through the pages of the book, I got curious with the topic “Goldbach Conjecture”, as I can remember, it was the mathematical problem highlighted in the film, “Fermat’s Room”, we watched before. It was the mathematical problem that made a mathematician go insane when he discovered that he wasn’t able to solve it first, where it fact he did. It is indeed a difficult and at the same time an interesting problem unsolved for 250 years now. Though many mathematicians attempted to solve and provide a proof for this conjecture, so far no one proved it right.

I enjoyed some of the topics, especially those humorous ones. While the rest, those with heavy ideas, I also appreciate them. It is an another unique math-related book that I appr