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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 2304361" data-attributes="member: 696">I'd be interested in hearing your review about these, after you're done.  From the title of the former, it sounds interesting.  The reviews on Amazon for this have been lackluster, so I've been waiting (for over four months) for my turn to come up to borrow this from the library.  A review from you would be interesting, as well... ****** Okay, my contribution. I'm reading (or rather, attempting to read) An Imaginary Tale, the history of the square root of negative one (i, for those of you who took college math).  It's very dense, or maybe I'm just dense, because I'm having difficulty following all the proofs and brilliant ideas from the mathematical greats... It's one of six books that are an introductory offer from Scientific American's Book Club.  (Not wanting to get into a book club, I just outright bought them from Amazon.)  The others are:Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea To Infinity and Beyond The Golden Ratio : The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number e: The Story of a Number The Joy of Pi I'm also reading Excel 2000 Formulas, an excellent book. On a more fun front, I've got the War of the Spider Queen series books 4 and 5 ready for me to pick up at the library.</blockquote>