It took sometime to complete this book but it was worth of it.
Mathematics is considered as very rigid, static and only for scientists or engineers, but the book has shown with the examples that this is not the case.
Our life is impacted by the mathematics in every dimension. A British nurse in Crimea can successfully challenge and then change the way patients should be treated. She used the numbers to explain the importance of cleanliness which established the procedures to maintain it.
How the cure of a disease in sailors was identified by creating two sets of the patients and monitor the outcome of different medicines/procedures on them. The numbers helped to established the cure though no one at that time was not sure that how that cure works.
Many more such examples can successfully alter someone's view towards maths as a subject with very little impact on day to day life, or a subject pertaining to scientists, engineers or teachers only.
The book is very well written and the writer has articulated the argument very well. A lot has been shared in this small book.
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