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Sacred Number: The Secret Quality of Quantities (Wooden Books)

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I was given this book as a present and have now read it over ten times. Lovely images and good mathematics. Lundy covers the numbers 1-12 in detail, listing their relationships to music, geometry and Pythagorean number theory, as well as some cultural background. She does this without sounding either too 'symbolic' or too 'mathematical'. Each number is presented with its own compound illustration, and these are - to put it plainly - quite awesomely well executed. The book then goes off into Magic Squares, Gematria and other esoterica again managing to stay neat, informative and historical. Finally there are extensive appendices. I utterly commend this rare, beautiful and fascinating book to anyone with even a passing interest in numbers.

As a mathematician I have to say I loved this book, as well as the entire wooden books series. The book is 50% image and 50% language, the perfect combination to keep both mind and eye engaged. The wooden book claim of, "little books, big ideas" couldn't be more true than this book. I have read it many times. I intend to read it many more times and will probably buy several copies for my friends.

This little book taught me even more about the sacred qualities of numbers than I ever would have imagined! I've studied various numerological systems such as The Enneagram (Helen Palmer is best) and numerology along with crystal studies. I was shocked to see the Enneagram structure in it! This book has a bunch to offer who look for quality over just quantity. We've become too numbed to our mathematics and quantifications. Time to see through a different lens. Highly recommended!

all of these wooden books series are so impressive.......none of these books are very expensive, 10$ at most, small and to the point...i am so glad i've bought most of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!