4/14/2004 11:08:00 AM|||Andrew|||The book I'm reading right now, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, by Morris Kline, is an absolutely fascinating book. Note that this is reading for pleasure, not reading for class. To give you a notion of the subject matter and how amazing it is, here's a short passage from it:

"At any rate by about 1890, only six thousand years after the Egyptians and Babylonians began to work with whole numbers, fractions, and irrational numbers, the mathematicians could finally prove that 2 + 2 = 4. It would appear that even the great mathematicians must be forced to consider rigor."

Delightful.|||108196611972796335|||Reading Material