A book I finished recently was The Square Root of Two  by David Flannery. The book is relatively short but it took me a while to finish. It made me regret that I didn't buy that book at that used bookstore about the number zero. Then it made me want research some of the mathematicians mentioned: Gauss, G.H. Hardy, and Ramanujan. I'm really interested about Gauss even though he reminds me of the Gaussian distribution (bell curve) from my probability class. I'm amazed it's so easy to calculate the sum of 1 to 100! Another plus from reading the book, I learned another spiral (besides spira mirabilis), Fermat's spiral. As for fiction, I finished Night of the Huntress by Kathryn Smith last week and I looked up the next book in the series but I didn't have the urge to go and get it now. I guess I'm more of a muser especially if something in the book piqued my interest besides the main point that it's trying to convey. Books that messes with my head tend to be memorable be it fiction or not.

That's an interesting thought that a book can prompt you to go off and do further research. I've just finished reading Mary Doria Russell's new novel 'Dreamers of the Day' and that has made me want to know more about the historical events she was writing about.