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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is something intoxicating about seeing one truth revealed in so many ways. It all makes for hours of glorious mathematical distraction."
—Ben Longstaff, New Scientist"A popular account of important ideas and their development."
—Peter M. Neumann, Times Higher Education Supplement"If one has never read a book by Eli Maor, this book is a great place to start."
—J. Johnson, Choice"Maor expertly tells the story of how this simple theorem known to schoolchildren is part and parcel of much of mathematics itself."
—Amy Shell-Gellasch, MAA Reviews"At last, a popular book that isn't afraid to print a mathematical formula in all its symbolic glory! Thanks to Eli Maor for proving—in his delightful, playful way—the eternal importance of a three-sided idea as old as humankind."
—Dava Sobel, author of Longitude
