Get on a commuter train these days and you can virtually see
people's brains crunching away at filling the numbers from 1 to
9 into a square grid. As the Sudoku craze shows no sign of
slowing, Hardeep Aiden investigates its relatives and
predecessors. This is a new edition of an old classic. Abbott
wrote this beautiful tale over a hundred years ago under the
pseudonym A Square. It still is one of the best introductions to
a mathematical world of higher dimensions, and it's an amazingly
imaginative social satire, too. Edward Burger and Michael
Starbird are both Professors of mathematics and have won
numerous teaching and writing awards for their work. Burger has
even performed stand-up comedy in night-clubs and is no stranger
to appearing on television and radio broadcasts. In their
company the reader is clearly in safe hands and these
achievements are reflected in the quality of the book. The text
is also written with a charm that is lamentably rare in maths
literature. Teaching a machine to understand music