Latest books: _Made to Stick_, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, about what makes some ideas memorable and others forgettable. Urban legends, for example, propagat

Latest books: _Made to Stick_, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, about what makes some ideas memorable and others forgettable. Urban legends, for example, propagate quickly on a vast scale despite having no marketing budget. _Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times_, by Morris Kline. Did you know that Gauss proved, in a section of his doctoral thesis, that partial-fraction decomposition can always yield real coefficients?