Number the language of science If I were someone who had a yen to learn about math, but
never had the time to do so, and if I found myself marooned on
that proverbial “desert island,” the one book I would hope to have
along is, to be honest, a good swimming manual. But the second
book might very well be this one. For Dantzig accomplishes these
essential tasks of scientific exposition: to assume hi...