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Ian Stewart described e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor as 鈥済ently
paced, elegantly composed鈥� in New 杏吧原创, 18 June 1994, p 43. So what鈥檚 this
e then? Well, it鈥檚 not a friend-to-the-Universe drug, it鈥檚 a number, a constant
as deeply embedded in the world around us as is p. It describes the shapes of
spirals, volumes shaped by curves and turns up in logarithms, the interest on
your bank account. Try it. Published by Princeton, 拢11.95, ISBN
0691058547.