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To experience the joy of mathematics is to realize that mathematics is not some isolated subject that has little relationship to the things around us other than to frustrate us with unbalanced checkbooks and complicated computations. Many of the phenomena around us can be described by mathematics. Mathematical concepts are even inherent in the structure of living cells. Author: Theoni PappasGrade 9 +Number of Pages: 240 Paperback Publisher: PappasISBN 0-933174-65-9… More >>
The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around You
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#1 by Alexis Vera Perez on July 4, 2010 - 5:58 pm
“The Joy of Mathematics” is just EXCELLENT!! This is the perfect tool to understand mathematics and its usage. I really recommend this book to those who think that Mathematics has not evolutioned and that its not useful.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Marek Nocon on July 4, 2010 - 6:39 pm
My appreciation for Theoni Pappas is enormous as for an observer and admirer of the world around her and mathematician. These factors cannot be separated, as at first you have to do more than just look around, but you have to have a beautiful mind of a child and be an intellectualist at the same time, not just to take things for granted, but as a child be curious and ask questions and finally as an intellectualist and mathematician find answers to them.
Yet, there is more to it. It is so, as the author popularizes mathematics. She answers the basic questions about role of mathematics in our lives. Most people associate mathematics as calculating especially money, yet in mathematics the theory models or formula are created, and it occurs that they find application in our material world sometimes even centuries afterwards. Let us look at some examples in the book “The joy of mathematics”: – earthquakes and logarithms- connection lies in the method to calculate earthquakes’ magnitudes by means of Richter scale, which is logarithmic, – the catenary & the parabolic curves- who takes as an obvious phenomena- the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco- it looks gorgeous, but what it looks like is connected with construction equations, which contribute to the fundamental thing, that it really is invulnerable and cannot be destroyed by the mass itself, as well as additional natural forces. Even Galileo noticed the curve to be parabola, – Thales & the Great Pyramid- Egiptians’ calculations of the height of a pyramid were based on shadows and similar triangles, -the Dome of Milan -Gothic plans incorporating the application of geometry and symmetry in architecture, and lots of stuff like that. If you like to notice more around you, astound your friends, you should read such books, as there is more beauty around you than what you just see.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on July 4, 2010 - 7:52 pm
It’s amazing how much math we use in our lives. This book really explains and teaches a lot of different math ideas. It’s interesting puzzles and diagrams will keep the reader hooked. A must buy for anyone who likes having fun while learning.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by David McCann on July 4, 2010 - 10:25 pm
if the discoverable arithmetic of the everyday natural world interests you, try this; and then you may want to explore her other work along this line.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Richard Frantz Jr. on July 5, 2010 - 12:19 am
This book may cover 147 topics, but each is only one or two pages long, much of which is taken up by illustrations. After listing a topic there is no depth showing how it relates to other topics, impacts our life, is useful or beautiful.
After showing a topic of mathematics I’m left wonder why I might conceivably care.
Rating: 1 / 5