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Fascinating, even for those who are not math-friendly. Writing style is clear and concise, a bit dry, but the material more than makes up for that. Each individual chapter builds upon the next, but stands on its own, that makes it a GREAT book for travel or lazy lolling days. You can start anywhere, pick where you left off, or read it backwards and it still makes sense. I first read this when I was thirteen. Re-read it again at 60. Its still one of the most interesting little books ever!
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George Gamow's book "One Two Three...Infinity" is an good survey of the sciences. I bought this book after hearing Noam Chomsky speak highly of it while being interviewed. His chapters on space, the fourth dimension, and relativity dig a bit deeper than "Hawking's Brief History of Time." Some knowledge of algebra is helpful with this book as seen in chapter five, "Relativity and Time and Space." His exploration of quantum mechanics through dissection and examination of the atom is a good starting point. Gamow stops short of delving into John Wheeler's 1955 quantum foam concept and moves on to the properties of light. It's odd that he didn't cover it in this 1961 edition.
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Then give her this book! It seems that almost all the reviewers had the same experience: we read this book at an early age, and it was so fascinating, so inspiring, and so magical that it directed us into math and science for the rest of our lives. In my case the book was loaned to me when I was about 12, by my best friend's father. As a result, when I wrote MY first math book (which cannot begin to compare with Gamow's!) thirty-five years later, I dedicated it to my friend's father in gratitude. The book explains how mathematics and science really works, in language which a young person with an eighth grade education can understand. Everyone thinks it takes a genius to understand relativity, but there are lots of fifteen-year-olds walking around with a decent understanding of Special Relativity simply because they read this book. But don't be misled into thinking this book is just for young people. It's for anyone who thirsts for knowledge and understanding, anyone who realizes that it doesn't require an alien life form to understand physics and math. Gamow discusses some of the great unsolved problems in mathematics (at least two of which - the four-color problem and Fermat's Last Theorem - have been solved since the book was written), the theory of relativity, the usefulness of imaginary numbers (square roots of negatives), geometry of more than three dimensions, and many other topics which most people think are accessible only to those anointed with stratospheric IQ's. But Gamow's writing is so clear and entertaining that you'll come away wondering why EVERYBODY doesn't understand those topics. A particularly vivid memory I have of the book is Gamow's demonstration that there are different sizes of infinity. He didn't originate the idea, of course; it was first thought of by a mathematician named Georg Cantor. But once again Gamow makes the mathematics so clear and accessible that I was enthralled. You will be too.
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This is a very interesting read, but I've been attempting to read this while on my lunch break at work. It is NOT a "pick up a book and read for a second" type of book. This book, while in the preface explaining that it was originally meant for children, has very mind boggling concepts regarding infinity and a mindset has to be adopted to read with ease. Fantastic concepts, not finished with the book at this point as I've struggled to find the time to dig into it.
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This item: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science (Dover Books on Mathematics)
