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I don't think that I've ever read a maths book and ''really'' enjoyed it. We've met [[:Category:Kjartan Poskitt|Kjartan Poskitt]] before and we know that he's witty and has a real knack for communicating with children but I laughed out loud several times and the smile was never far from my face. (Speaking about the need to retrieve a shoe that had got stuck in high gutter, he mentions that if you have an eight metre ladder placed at an angle of 72 degrees to the wall, being able to work out the height of the wall will be useful ''so you know what to tell the ambulance man later.'') I relaxed and realised that I was enjoying what I was doing and ''learning'' something at the same time.
The subjects covered range from the ''very'' basic - adding, subtraction, multiplication and division (long and not-so-long) through to the dreaded logarithms. I can't thing of anything that was covered at school that I didn't brush up on. One or two subjects were left after an initial reading to come back to at a later date, but they were few and far between and for the most part I'm a lot clearer on several subjects than I was before I started reading. I'd like too to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
We've recently also enjoyed [[I Used to Know That: Maths by Chris Waring]]. More advanced mathematicians will appreciate anything by [[:Category:Ian Stewart|Professor Ian Stewart]].
