Comments on: Book review: The Math Book http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/08/25/math-book-clifford-pickover/ The blog of John D. Cook Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:29:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: gappy http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/08/25/math-book-clifford-pickover/comment-page-1/#comment-23492 gappy Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:22:24 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=2896#comment-23492 Cliff is a prolific author, and I am pretty sure he did not design the dust jacket of this book. We have lunch occasionally, and he's one of the nicest, most curious guys you can meet at IBM Research. Cliff is a prolific author, and I am pretty sure he did not design the dust jacket of this book. We have lunch occasionally, and he’s one of the nicest, most curious guys you can meet at IBM Research.

]]> By: John S. http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/08/25/math-book-clifford-pickover/comment-page-1/#comment-23483 John S. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:38:29 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=2896#comment-23483 Now that you mention it, all of Pickover's books seem to have ugly covers. I wonder why that is. I hate to see Greek letters used this way too. I will say that at least in the title of this book, the beta is used for a b and the alpha for an a. The one that grates on me is when you see GREEK written GR∑∑K (as I believe it was in the publicity for My Big Fat Greek Wedding). It looks like GRISSK to me. Now that you mention it, all of Pickover’s books seem to have ugly covers. I wonder why that is.

I hate to see Greek letters used this way too. I will say that at least in the title of this book, the beta is used for a b and the alpha for an a. The one that grates on me is when you see GREEK written GR∑∑K (as I believe it was in the publicity for My Big Fat Greek Wedding). It looks like GRISSK to me.

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