gharness's review
informative
medium-paced
3.75
A short and simple overview of mathematics in the ancient world. Exactly as advertised.
beatricehill's review
This short tale is from Audible's sleep collection. I can confirm it does the trick! Tony Shalhoub has such a soothing voice.
skyfox24kd's review
5.0
Some of these, issued by audible lately, are supposed to help you snooze, but i was awake through this following the thoughts and learning. It was interesting and I loved TS narrating it.
brizreading's review
2.0
A bite-sized snack of math history, this is an unsatisfying, 30-minute lecture on the origins of mathematical thinking. Despite the title (which made me think this would be a super-panoramic view from Pythagoras to Liebniz), this is essentially 25 minutes about what the ancient Egyptians knew about math (mostly practical arithmetic stuff) with a brief 5 minutes on ancient Chinese math (not much). Bottom line: apparently the ancient Greeks were the ones who started treating math like a science, thinking in terms of deductive reasoning, proofs, theorems, etc. Meh.
kuzminichna's review
4.0
It's a fabulous little experiment of sorts, fun in its own way - to get a math related text read so soothingly. I enjoyed it but why is it so short? What about the other 1000 nights? Mr Shaloub better get on it :)
bronni's review
5.0
Normally don’t fall asleep to the end if these stories but I fell asleep straight away to this one.
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