a while ago on the ABC (this is in australia) there was a series on called The Science of Secrecy. i only ever caught about two episodes if it and they were the last one and another one quite near the end. it was damn interesting i tell you!
anyways at the end of the show it mentioned the book that went with the series. i was in a bookstore today and i didnt find the book but i did find two other books by the author (and narrator/host thingy of the show). i ended up buying Fermat’s Last Theorem (called Fermat’s Enigma in the US). so far it’s pretty good. some of the math stuff in the apendices are over my head and i am sitting there going “hmmm….yup….ummmm….i have no BLOODY IDEA!” hehehehe. but some of it doesnt have me TOO baffled so thats good. but i have only read about a fifth of it.
it goes into quite a bit about the history of mathematics and its mentions things like perfect numbers and things like that. now why dont they tell kids about that when they start doing maths. i think that would have made me like maths more. i remember when we first did pythagoras and thinking ‘this is cool!’ and in later years when i finally got the cosine rule – it took almost a year and a new teacher before i got it but i remember being happy when i got it. not that i recall it now.
i looked on high school as this evil era of suffering that had to be forgotten as quickly as possible. i have a dodgy memory for some things anyways, but my quest for useless info since i left high school has done a good job of filling my mind with crap and helping me forget the ugliness of school.
but i digress. i also bought another book about php but i havent had a chance to tackle that yet.
i love my credit card. 🙂
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