Reviews for Das Recht der direkten Bundessteuer 1995 =: The direct federal tax law 1995

The average rating for Das Recht der direkten Bundessteuer 1995 =: The direct federal tax law 1995 based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-22 00:00:00 Matthew Graves A very good book, but I'm not sure if Dan Rockmore knows who his audience is. Throughout the book, he switches back and forth between incredibly simple mathematical concepts and painfully abstract inside baseball. For example, he spends almost an entire chapter explaining what a prime number is and then devotes only a few pages to detailing the Critical Strip, a concept integral to understanding WHAT mathematicians are looking for to prove the Reimann Hypothesis. If the book was written for a math newbie, there's way too much rarefied air in its pages. If his intended audience is mathematicians, the book is terribly watered down. Being somewhere in the middle of these two extremes, I found the book periodically enjoyable but pretty frustrating. The historical account is terrific, though. It's rare to find such a comprehensive chronology with names, dates and charming anecdotes about science dweebs, so the book is worth the read if only for this.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-14 00:00:00 ROBERT Murray (3.0) A history of the Riemann Hypothesis, as translated by a mathematician I've often regretted never having taken 'real' math (calculus, linear algebra, diffeq all seem like applied math to me), so there's a lot that I don't know that I wish I did. I was kind of hoping that I'd gain a better understanding of one of the most famous unresolved problems in mathematics by reading this. However, I get the feeling (from the sections that I followed well) that in translating math into prose, a little understanding is lost, and you kind of need to already understand the topic well to properly interpret his presentation. My hyperbolic geometry is a little fuzzy, shall we say, so much of the latter history of the Riemann Hypothesis was a rough qualitative understanding at best. But I did enjoy the early history quite a bit. Definitely makes mathematicians look like pretty cool guys (and girls, though I don't think there were (m)any in the narrative. :( ). I'm sure many of you smarter than I out there can get a lot more out of this book. I guess I would've appreciated at least a few Greek symbols and proofs in there for me... ;)