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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality

Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality

by Orlin, Ben
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A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures.

In Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about. His tools are unorthodox: jokes, cartoons, strange-but-true stories, and beneath it all, the empathy of a veteran teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin helps us to think like mathematicians by teaching a brand-new game of tic-tac-toe, profiling the ten people you meet in line for the lottery, and documenting the headaches that ensue when the Evil Empire attempts to build a spherical Death Star. Math with Bad Drawings will change the way you see the subject--and the world.

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BrandBlack Dog & Leventhal
Pub dateSep 5, 2023
ISBN-100316509043
ISBN-139780316509046
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.95 × 1.4 × 7.05 in
Weight2 lb
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