The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng
Published 2018 · 88,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Art of Logic in an Illogical World to read?
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World scores 50 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Mathematical vocabulary, carefully introduced.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short, clear sentences.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Formal logic applied to political argument.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Moderate; it builds slowly.
How The Art of Logic in an Illogical World is regarded
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World holds a literary regard score of 37 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.