This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species. — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics. — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks,… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
