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鈥淚ts engaging Beauty and vast Use鈥� is just one of the enthusiastic
descriptions of mathematics (algebra in this case) that fill the pages of David
Wells鈥檚 The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics (Penguin,
拢8.99, ISBN 014 02 3603 1. The title says it all, and it鈥檚 a treasure
trove of extracts, puzzles鈥攁nd even a toast to the confusion of
Newton.