Intersesting Integrals - A Math Book Review.
Overall, Interesting Integrals is a book I want to recommend, yet it falls short of being that useful in terms of teaching the few tricks it possesses. In chapters 1-4 of the book, the book performs pretty well, delivering, albeit easy, problems which really drive home the essence of the tricks and demonstrate their uses well. The introduction on Feynman’s trick, in particular, really drives home how well the author can deliver on making a trick both easy and usable. However, afterwards the book strives to get ahead of itself without a decent understanding of the level at which it is asking some readers to go for it. While the occasional step missing is not too big of a draw, the book fails at presenting the solutions in such a way to aid the reader’s learning. There were a few times where the book managed to simply, through some weird notation, become hard to decode without the assistance of Wolfram Alpha to pick up the slack. However, such practices pale in co