South American Numbers
I received another batch of books from my publisher this morning. These are more translation editions of The Book of Numbers: German, US, Japanese, and Brazilian. Strangely the Brazilian version has a different cover image from all the others, and to my surprise it has a quote from Scientific American. I was surprised because to my knowledge Scientific American never actually reviewed the book. One of my PhD students solved the mystery - apparently my book was listed in Scientific American’s “New and Notable Books about Numbers” in May 2008, and the “quote” refers to that list. Not quite sure why they chose to do that when we have plenty of other good quotes, but perhaps in Brazil this is the best way to sell books… Anyway, the book looks very nice so I’m sure Brazilian readers should like it.
Luiz Martins (February 22, 2010 11:20 PM):