About the Zachary Hubbard is a teacher and author who has devoted his time and energy to teaching Gematria. His successful book "Letters and Numbers" can give anyone a good understanding of Gematria. Gematria is a very old code system that changes words and phrases to represent a particular number. At a young age he noticed certain numbers associated with certain sport teams. What a coincidence!
He then discovered that there was also a connection between sports, the mainstream news and Gematria. Maybe there was no coincidence! Whether you believe in Gematria or not, in this book Zachary does make a powerful case in many examples that goes beyond coincidence! Read this book and you will be shocked, surprised and discover this concurrent world. They world you live by and the world of Gematria!! "Words have multiple meanings but numbers don't lie!"
On one hand, great stuff. Should have been 5-stars
On the other hand I had to hold, in my head, reservations about - degrees of freedom and - undetermined Statistical priors and - what _are_ the unlikely hoods ? and - against what model (probability distribution) would you test ? It was very, very tiring.
I think that gematria is awesome, but because of the work of holding these reservations in my head, I just couldn't get enthused. I have to at least understand related issues before I can take a subject on.
I can see that there are (apparently) highly unlikely occurrences that match number patterns, but I couldn't work out how unusual these occurrences _actually_ were. Thee-stars for not making the case.