That's what he said about one of Rachel's latest conquests, 'The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Live' by Leonard Mlodinow. But Rachel loved the book and it continued to build on her fascination with math.
Here's how Hawking describes the book on Amazon.com:
"In The Drunkard’s Walk Leonard Mlodinow provides readers with a wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives. With insight he shows how the hallmarks of chance are apparent in the course of events all around us. The understanding of randomness has brought about profound changes in the way we view our surroundings, and our universe. I am pleased that Leonard has skillfully explained this important branch of mathematics."
Though she loved the book, because of its dense content, Rachel spent more time per page than any of the other books she's read so far.
She also completed 'The Last Olympian' by Rick Riordan, the 5th book in the 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' series. The Percy Jackson books are some of the few fiction works that have made the list so far.
And finally, in the last post we talked about Rachel's most annoying book, 'The Book of Useless Information.' Despite it's title and general uselessness, these 'facts' keep clogging her mind and her conversations. For example, did you know:
- You are more likely to be killed by a cow than a shark. (I never trusted cows.)
- That the average American spends 12 minutes in the shower.
Doesn't seem so useless to me. I think the best way to avoid death by cow is to spend a little more time in the shower.
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