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    <body><![CDATA[An extremely poor approach to the historical development of mathematics.  The book is replete with historical inaccuracies and a clear anti-Christian bias throughout.  Try Kline's &quot;Mathematics for the Nonmathematician&quot; instead.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I kept reading this book because the subject matter is so fascinating. The writing, however, was awful. First, it makes no sense to me to have a book about geometry with so few diagrams included. To make things worse, the author lets a jocular tone stand in for clear, concise explanations. It is app...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38617761">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very plesantly surprised when I picked this book up at a small independent shop of Drury Circle in DC about 6 years ago.  I thought it would be interesting but I didn't expect it to also be so entertaining.  Mlodinow does a remarkable job considering the subject matter is the history of Geomet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51938034">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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