Reddit reviews The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
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Used Book in Good Condition
I have found it!
It is "The man who counted" and I seem to have mixed up a few of the particulars of the story, but there you have it.
Wikipedia page.
That bothered me too. I gather that the jokes are strained even in the original German. I liked that book even so.
Another book you might like is The Man Who Counted: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393309347
In Lauren Ipsum I stuck to the real words, with some exceptions. I call programs "poems" to stress the desire for elegance. To smooth over the difference between programmers and computer scientists, in the book they are both called "composers".
Came here to suggest that.
I've read that when I was eight years old and decided that I'd be a "mathematician" (whatever that meant for an eight year old).
I kinda veered off the path a bit and graduated in Computer Sciences.
But I digress... The man who counted. Great book! And it is available in english:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Counted-Mathematical/dp/0393309347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348635831&sr=8-1&keywords=malba+tahan
That reminded me of this
You should read The Man who Counted by Malba Tahan.
I second the Kaplan books and add The Man Who Counted.