I’d been smoking since I was 18 and quit a few years ago. I found that numerous books become my substitute for previous cigarette breaks. This might have different side effects but because I read mostly paper books and magazines it is much better, I believe, than switching from one computer screen to another.
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Finally I adopted the following process for book reviews:
1. Start reading a book.
2. After sometime put an initial reveiw on this blog.
3. Iteratively and incrementally revise it during read. For example, add additional bits as soon as I discover something good or bad worth mentioning in the book review.
4. When the book is finished put its review blog post into a category: From Cover To Cover.
5. Put the review on Amazon and mark this appropriately by putting its blog post into another category: Reviewed on Amazon.
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I read this book from cover to cover while flying on a plane from Dublin to St. Petersburg and back. That was so wonderful reading experience - I couldn’t put the book down during those flights. I recall that I visited the Department of Mathematics a few times when I studied Chemistry in Moscow State University although at that time I knew next to nothing about Russian mathematicians. The book touched me so deeply that I bought the main work of Florensky: The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, the history of Russian philosophy and several books explaining Orthodox Church. This is the best mathematics history book I have ever read, my feelings perhaps comparable to those that I experienced when I finished reading Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty by Morris Kline but that was more than 20 years ago.
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
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