Stats for nerds
2recommend
3mentions
3people
2014–2024years
67% recommend33% critical
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- Perhaps the best fictional description I came across is Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts: https://www.tor.com/2010/11/22/air-war-in-the-stone-age-poul...
It's an SF book, you have a small group trying to survive in an alien world at war. The guy who pulls them through is the canny merchant, who marshalls the skills of others and negotiates their salvation.
I think the narrator in the book was the engineer - and so was the author, Poul Anderson.
- I'd guess the English title is a play on the phrase "The Man Who Counts" (in the sense of 'who matters'), which is also the title of at least one book ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Counts-Poul-Anderson/dp/044151... , a good tale).
- Flatland was highly recommended in homeschooling circles I ran in back in the day.
A book that notably does not belong on this list but I read it because I thought it would be mathy has the title The Man Who Counts which I completely misinterpreted and continued to be befuddled by even after I finished reading it, having spent the entire book waiting for the math part of the story that never came.
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