Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
This beautifully-written book explores a variety of topics that are either impossible to resolve or unfeasible (and likely permanently so). It is written in such a way that most (although probably not all) of the material will be accessible to non-mathematicians. Both my wife (who studied no mathematics at the college level) and my daughter (whose mathematical training stopped with calculus) read early versions of this book and agree with that assessment. (Full disclosure: both of them, along with me, are thanked in the Acknowledgments). However, there is much in here that was new and interesting to me, so its appeal is also not limited to non-mathematicians.
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Recommended Citation
Barr, Michael S. Review of The Outer Limits of Reason., The American Mathematical Monthly 121, no. 7 (2014): 658-660. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.07.658
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The American Mathematical Monthly in Aug-Sept 2014, available at: https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.07.658