Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality -- Ben Orlin, Paperback

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.

Author: Ben Orlin
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: 9/5/2023
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.1 lbs
Size: 8.7" H x 7.3" L x 1.6" W
ISBN: 9780316509046

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