Merovius finished reading The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with …
@seelefand Not personally. It's well written and keeps its promise, in that it contains real proofs that are still understandable to non-mathematicians. I would have zero qualms recommending this to a person who tells me they "would love to understand math, but was always bad at school" or something like that. i.e. if there is some baseline curiosity there, but it's just perceived as too intimidating. I was impressed with the soundness of some of the proofs (e.g. they do mention the problem that 0.999…=1 for Cantor's diagonal proof, which I haven't seen many pop-sci treatments do).
Someone with a mathematical background is likely to already know most of the things talked about. I think it might help in giving examples of how to convey mathematical ideas to "normal people", if you never thought about that. I did, though, and came up with very similar explanations on my own. And …
