What do you find fun about algebra books? I don't think I've tried to read a basic one since high school, except for when Raymond Smullyan writes about the pleasures of solving algebraic problems without the traditional symbolic manipulation.
Why do they still make new geometry books? I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't an eerily faithful translation of The Elements. I don't want to say that the field hasn't changed since 300 BCE, but um ... has it?
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Date: 2009-06-05 07:11 pm (UTC)Why do they still make new geometry books? I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't an eerily faithful translation of The Elements. I don't want to say that the field hasn't changed since 300 BCE, but um ... has it?