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Indeed. And not only about this phase of the war, but also about Cholera and the dimensions of the Egyptian pyramids and much more.

(Now that I live in Cambridge, I should really go and try to mee T.W. Körner.)

From the author's website (http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/):

"Next let me remind you that The Pleasures of Counting is still available from all good bookshops. Longer than `With Rod and Line Through the Gobi Desert', funnier than `The Wit and Wisdom of the German General Staff' and with more formulae than `A Brief History of Time' it was voted Book of the Year by a panel consisting of Mrs E. Körner, Mrs W. Körner, Miss K. Körner and Dr A. Altman (née Körner)."



Yes, the book is laugh-out-loud funny in surprising places.

Miss K. Körner is quite a fine mathematician in her own right.

http://nrich.maths.org/2756

http://www.math.harvard.edu/people/KornerKatherine.html


It's a shame that `The Wit and Wisdom of the German General Staff' doesn't exist.




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