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Measurement

by Paul Lockhart
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780674284388
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Belknap Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Belknap Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 416
  • Original Price: GBP 20.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 534 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Geometry / General, Measurement, and History & Philosophy

Paul Lockhart's Mathematician's Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, Lockhart makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living.

In conversational prose that conveys his passion for the subject, Lockhart makes mathematics accessible without oversimplifying. He makes no more attempt to hide the challenge of mathematics than he does to shield us from its beautiful intensity. Favoring plain English and pictures over jargon and formulas, he succeeds in making complex ideas about the mathematics of shape and motion intuitive and graspable. His elegant discussion of mathematical reasoning and themes in classical geometry offers proof of his conviction that mathematics illuminates art as much as science.

Lockhart leads us into a universe where beautiful designs and patterns float through our minds and do surprising, miraculous things. As we turn our thoughts to symmetry, circles, cylinders, and cones, we begin to see that almost anyone can "do the math" in a way that brings emotional and aesthetic rewards. Measurement is an invitation to summon curiosity, courage, and creativity in order to experience firsthand the playful excitement of mathematical work.

Lockhart, Paul: - Paul Lockhart is the author of Arithmetic, Measurement, and A Mathematician's Lament. After a career as a research mathematician at Brown University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, he spent two decades teaching algebra at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn.

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