Looking for Math in All the Wrong Places: Math in Real Life (Spectrum) - Softcover

Simonson, Shai

 
9781470470128: Looking for Math in All the Wrong Places: Math in Real Life (Spectrum)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1470470128 ISBN 13: 9781470470128
Verlag: American Mathematical Society, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The soul of mathematics is the practice of skeptical inquiry: asking how and why things work, experimenting, exploring, and discovering. Estimation, analysis, computation, conjecture, and proof are the mathematical path to uncovering truth and we can use them in nearly every human pursuit. In this thoroughly charming and beguiling book, Shai Simonson applies mathematical tools in a variety of contexts that arise in everyday life to prove his claim that math is, literally, everywhere. Simonson applies his mathematical cast of mind to hiking, birthday parties, carnival games, lock picking, and kite flying. We see unexpected depths and connections when we look in the ""wrong"" places in the right way.

No advanced mathematical knowledge is required to travel with Simonson and share in his investigations. All a reader needs is an open and curious mind, an eagerness to ask questions, and a willingness to think deeply and carefully about seemingly mundane things. There is wonder and joy in quotidian life with Simonson as your guide.

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Shai Simonson, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA.

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Verlag
American Mathematical Society
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1470470128
ISBN 13 
9781470470128
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
209
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