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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
The Language of Mathematics by Keith Devlin
An interesting survey with useful discussion of sets and groups and non-euclidean geometry and topology. The knot section was accessible as was the section on simple probability. His section on Chomsky and section on relativity were less well done.
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