Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart .

This book was written in 2009 and I bought the 3285 KB Amazon Kindle edition published in 2010. Sadly there is no structure to this book, there is no theme, it is more like a collection of magazine tit bits. Ian may be a good mathematician but he is not a good author. This book was a big disappointment for me and I did not enjoy reading it. The text does not engage or inspire the reader. It is quite dull, which is a shame because of how mathematics explain our world. This book is very bitty, made up of little short sections. There is an awful lot of algebra to read through, making this book very easy to put down.

I did not find any mathematical treasures at all, just a collection of bits and pieces. I thought this book a poor read and shall only be voting it 2 stars on Good Reads . I took very little away from this book, the best snippet being...

Traces of sexagesimal arithmetic still linger in our culture. We divide an hour into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds. In angular measure, we divide a degree into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds, too - same words, different context.