The Beauty of a Good Book

[superkittin]

Ever read a book that threatens the way you relate to the world? I'm guessing and hoping that most of you have. Well, I'm reading one that is a posing an imposing threat in such a way that I welcome it with mind wide open. Meet Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.

This is a book I'm reading for the math class I'm in, Excursions in

Comments

[lucyrachel]

Ahhhhh, I love when math meets other things! I'm bad at math...but I love learning about its unexpected cool relations to other fields.

[superkittin]

Me too! I'll never be a "math person" but I definitely enjoy the connections of math theories to other things/fields. =)

[theorems]

UUUUUUNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH THAT IS SO AWESOME

[superkittin]

I thought you'd like it! When I was reading about the monochord, I thought, "Dude, this reminds me of Kim for some reason..." =)

[theorems]

we saw a guy at the folklife festival in seattle playing a similar instrument: it was just a base with a thin neck and one string. i might go so far as to say it was the most beautiful sound i had ever heard. and even more interestingly, niko told me that this instrument pre-dates the drum.

i should probably check this book out, huh.

[superkittin]

Wow, an instrument that pre-dates the drum? For some reason I thought the drum would have been the first...

It's a good book and I'd definitely recommend it to you. It gets a little mathy, but it's worth it.

[lovemotionstory]

oh man, i totally need to buy that zero book!!

[superkittin]

It's really good so far! Let me know what you think if you do end up reading it. =)

[existence_ltd]

and.. it's... ON my amazon wishlist now :-p

[superkittin]

Hah, awesome! =)

[erictheconfused]

"Ever read a book that threatens the way you relate to the world?"

Yes. It was Green Eggs and Ham. It was an emotional catastrophe. I have never been the same since.

[superkittin]

Ohhhh, is that so?