As I wrote in last post, Maestro is a good book I will keep reading. This book definitely changed my life.
“Fermat’s Last theorem” by Simon Singh: Sometime people say Math is the queen of science and Physics is the king of science. I will be able to something about this topic bot not today. The reason why I started reading book is I wanted to review about Math because I believe Math is my origin of curiosity. I loved Math so much when I was young. Even I was in college, I was reading about Math. I remember when I was student I just found this book I thought “somebody solve Fermat theorem” then I started reading. This book teaches us how mathematical concepts, such as “i”, were invented and the time line of development math while solving Fermat’s last theorem. I personally remember that Taniyama-Shimra conjecture and their story because Taniyama committed suicide. And that story keeps me thinking “why?”
“How to manage slaves” by Jerry Toner: I happened to find this book on the web. The title is shocking though, this book is talking about slaves in Roman Empire. The author from Cambridge University describes the culture of Roman Empire based on research. The book consists of two parts, Marcus Sidonius Falx talks how to buy, get the best from, punish, torture, set them free, and so on, slaves. And then the author explains later based on research. I like the part when Falx discussed his German friend. The German friend told him they don’t have slaves. He says “Imagine that? A society without slaves! Who has ever heard of such a things?” And we need to remember if we defined slave “who are forced to work against their will”, the world now has more than 27 million slaves which is much larger than Roman Empire had.
“Thought of Marcus Aurelius Antonius”: Sometime I feel I really am lucky enough to live this age. We can read this classic book for free on kindle. While, I feel humanity has not advanced much from the age Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (A.D 121 -180). I first read this book when I was student, I was very impressed and I am reading when I need. I like how the book starts, he started this book from what he had learned people around him. If I write some my thought in the future, I am sure I will write something like that. He was one of stoics also emperor. His thoughts are very practical, you should try. You would find some quote best for you.
I just started reading “The revenge of geography” by Robert D Kaplan. The author apparently writes this book against famous book “The world is flat” by Thomas L. Friedman. The author’s claim is that Geography still sometime is crucial to know how power in the world shift. I agree. I might review this book later. And, I just started listening to “On writing” Steven King. I like this book because he teaches me how much I should be serious for writing. I needed to write but I like writing now because of this book. I am reading this book because I need to write a lot in few months. I am afraid of but also looking forward to it. I think I have few more books I want to review but I’ll stop here because of limitation of words, like Fermat!! Maybe tomorrow
I am at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A now, I am writing experiences here now.