Anne Morrow Lindbergh decides to take a brief retreat from her life to spend some time on Florida’s Captiva Island and ponders over several aspects of life. This book is a compilation of those thoughts. First published in 1955, this book was a big hit and was translated in to 45 odd languages. More recently, there was a 50th anniversary edition of the book with a preface written by Lindbergh’s daughter Reeve Lindbergh The book is about 5 types of shells that author finds on the island .

” for Math. What does the book contain ? It contains 12 chapters on various aspects of math with history and examples blended in such a way that a reader will love the pace of the book. 0. Head for Numbers The book starts off with questioning the concept of NUMBER itself. Is it a cultural artefact or Is it something that we have an innate ability to comprehend ? Alex cites an interesting piece of research which reaffirms our tendency to think in logarithmic scale.

Via Information is Beautiful : A superb way to collate numbers. Absolute numbers are useless but become interesting when you see it in a context. Someday I would love to write a piece of code which does this automatically given some data points.

In reality there is only now. If you know how to handle this moment, you know how to handle the whole eternity - Sadhguru

Says David McCandless in his TED Talk http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf