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Customer Reviews:Average Customer Rating: Love at First Sight Customer Rating:  It's hard to come up with anything to add to the excellent reviews everyone else has already written. I honestly can't imagine anyone with more than a passing interest in higher mathematics who wouldn't love this book, and I'm the kind of guy who falls asleep as soon as Euclid gets past his undefined terms. Ladies: Is there a mathematician or wannabe mathematician in your life? Buy him this book, and he'll be your love slave forever. Couldn't be better Customer Rating: Little if anything to add to what has already been said at length by other reviewers. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a genuine joy. Very well edited, presented, written. Accessible to a wide variety of readers (I studied a good deal of math in college, but very little in the years since). And above all, extraordinarily thorough. Along with something like the outstanding "What is Mathematics?" by Courant (et al.), almost any competent reader of any background can find something rewarding here. An (almost) non-human companion Customer Rating: This is a huge collection of essays and mathematical knowledge. The book is not an encyclopedia, but rather a "companion" in the human sense of the word. It knows some of (almost) everything. Worth to mention are the essays at the end titled "Advice to a young mathematician", which really inspired me in my mathematics studies. A must-have for every student of mathematics :) Math wannabe Customer Rating: At times heavy going, but mostly readable by those with minimal advanced maths, Well worth the money. Mathematics Companion Customer Rating: This is the second copy of the book I purchase. The first one was for me and my son. This one is a gift for a friend of my son, a high school student, with a hope that it will remain her companion for many years. This clearly indicates how I rate the book. In my currency (rupee) the price is at the higher side. But I do not complain much. It is worth buying this magnum opus. It has wide coverage in a mostly understandable form. I really enjoy reading. I cannot compare it with Timothy Gowers earlier text, Mathematics: a short Introduction. I do not have a copy. But then I believe that they cannot be compared simply because of difference in sizes. I do not have anything similar to PMC in my collection. It is just great. | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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