A first-class demolition job has been hilariously achieved by Underwood
Dudley in his Numerology, or What Pythagoras Wrought. The book would be even
more hilarious if believers in the nonsense of numerology picked it up,
expecting support. What they would find is a comprehensive debunking of the
whole mass of tripe, including such famous ingredients as pyramidology, mystic
numbers, the scary but meaningless 666 and triangular numbers in Shakespeare’s
sonnets. It’s a monument to human ingenuity and credulousness. Published by the
Mathematical Association of America, $29.95, ISBN 0883855240.
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