Paul Lockhart (1)

Please follow the link to my review.
https://polymathtobe.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-review-mathematicians-lament-by.h...

I really loved the early sections and exercises on different counting systems. There was something exciting about seeing the pros and cons of each and learning to translate between them without going through base 10 Arabic numerals. I stayed interested through the basic arithmetic operations, but really lost interest as he went off into combinatorics and probability— I no longer felt I was learning or stretching my brain.

I stopped reading around 40%. Being a math major, it wasn't providing enough insight-density to warrant further reading. Others with less math experience would likely get a lot out of it, however.

This is the kind of math I love, and would have done a lot more of if I had been exposed to it at an earlier age. (I have far too many things I like to do to spend time getting up to speed on mathematical logic at this point.)