A review by tintinintibet
One Hundred Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World by John D. Barrow

2.0

The book is comprised of 100 short chapters of 2-3 pages in length. I spent a week reading this book (it feels more like reading a blog where the author's goal is brevity), and a day later....I can probably name 5 memorable topics, and 2 were interesting enough for me to wikipedia the idea presented in the short chapter. And probably half the topics will be very familiar to those people who would possibly check this book out from the library. The book seems to be a series of "abstract" summaries of 100 math-y sort of topics. And you must go elsewhere for any real amount of detail.