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How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life

Autor Susan D'Agostino
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 mar 2020
How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life offers readers guidance in managing the fear, freedom, frustration, and joy that often accompany calls to think mathematically. With practical insight and years of award-winning mathematics teaching experience, D'Agostino offers more than 300 hand-drawn sketches alongside accessible descriptions of fractals, symmetry, fuzzy logic, knot theory, Penrose patterns, infinity, the Twin Prime Conjecture, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem, and other intriguing mathematical topics. Readers are encouraged to embrace change, proceed at their own pace, mix up their routines, resist comparison, have faith, fail more often, look for beauty, exercise their imaginations, and define success for themselves. Mathematics students and enthusiasts will learn advice for fostering courage on their journey regardless of age or mathematical background. How to Free Your Inner Mathematician delivers not only engaging mathematical content but provides reassurance that mathematical success has more to do with curiosity and drive than innate aptitude.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198843597
ISBN-10: 0198843593
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 136 x 202 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

This is a popular book for those who want to learn about mathematics and mathematical thinking but have no mathematical background...Detailed solutions to the problems are provided
In an era of excellent books about mathematics for a popular audience, this book stands out, for its spirit, imagination, and liveliness.
I never knew I could find math so entertaining! I loved not just bending my mind around concepts I can actually use in my life but learning about some of the mathematicians and history behind them. D'Agostino's clever illustrations are a big plus!
Marvelous mathematical meditations. D'Agostino leads the reader to discover their mathematical selves through self-contained explorations. Appropriate for mathematical novices, enthusiasts, professionals, or anyone willing to reflect on the truth, beauty, and joy of mathematics.
In life, as in mathematics, a fresh approach is sometimes warranted. D'Agostino intertwines life's lessons with those gleaned from a stunning array of mathematical gems to forge a vision of mathematics that is both personal and universal.
This delightful book contains precious nuggets of mathematics rendered accessible to most by connecting them to real life and engaging the reader in artfully paced steps. What is truly unique about this book, however, is the way D'Agostino infuses it with her humanity, making it as fun and instructive as it is wise.
Few things are as beautiful, fascinating and revealing about life and important to its pursuit as mathematics. This elegantly written book makes mathematics alive and accessible, without compromise, with charm, clarity, grace, and wit. This book should fall into the hands not only of all students, but all adults. Readers will not only be grateful, but will smile along the way.
This book is a great entry point for the curious student wondering about the world around them, a wonderful reference guide for the parent, a reminder for the working engineer, or an enjoyable read for anyone seeking to "update their understanding." It reminds us how elegantly math helps make sense of the world - and that success is in the eye of the beholder!
I could describe the essays in this collection as inspiring and motivational, but that wouldn't quite communicate the validation I felt reading them... [the book] draws upon the theorems, applications, and history of mathematics to inspire lessons and advice for us along our mathematical (and other) pursuits. Delightful illustrations and an (honestly) enjoyable exercise accompany each essay. This book will appeal to aspiring mathematicians at any career stage, but its most important audience may be the latent mathematicians who have been discouraged from the discipline but are open to a fresh invitation.

Notă biografică

Susan D'Agostino is a mathematician and writer whose essays have been published in Quanta Magazine, Scientific American, Financial Times, Nature, Undark, Times Higher Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, Math Horizons, Mathematics Teacher, and others. She earned her PhD in Mathematics from Dartmouth College, Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics from Smith College, and BA in Anthropology from Bard College. She is a Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Her website is www.susandagostino.com and her Twitter handle is @susan_dagostino.