How long does it take to read Mathematics?
Jan Gullberg
Mathematics by Jan Gullberg takes about 20 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 2 minutes
A long haul
First published 1997. 1,093 pages, about 300,575 words.
41 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 33 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gullberg attempts to "bring together the history of mathematics with a broad treatment of its foundations," including numbers and their symbols, the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, calculus, matrices and determinants, differential equations, algebra, the theory of functions, geometry, trigonometry, hyperbolic functions, analytic geometry, number theory, symbolic logic, set theory, Boolean algebra, transfinite numbers, topology, fractals, vector analysis, and probability theory.
Subjects: Mathematics, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Mathematics, history, Mathematical recreations, History
