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One, Two, Three...Infinity

George Gamow

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Marcus du Sautoy recommends it
Yes, one of the things that really excited me when I read this – again when I was at school – was this idea of infinity. Gamow was a physicist first of all: Mathematics is the language of physics and you can see that through this book.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Sep 2014

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.