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	Math with Bad Drawings 4.22 avg rating — 2,011 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World 4.30 avg rating — 839 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter 4.57 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Math for English Majors 4.21 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nonstandard Notebook: Mathematically Ruled Pages for Unruly Thoughts by Tim Chartier, Amy Langville, Ben Orlin (Goodreads Author) (foreword) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Math for English Majors: A Human Take on the Universal Language 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Creativity is what happens when a mind encounters an obstacle. It’s the human process of finding a way through, over, around, or beneath. No obstacle, no creativity.”
― Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

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“Reality is a lovely starting point, but the coolest destinations lie far beyond it.”
― Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

tags: cool, destinations, lovely, mathematics-reality

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“Filling a mind with facts is not like filling a vessel with water. For anyone with a worldview—that is, anyone with a pulse—assimilation is an active process.”
― Ben Orlin, Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter

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“It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work.”
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“Reality is a lovely starting point, but the coolest destinations lie far beyond it.”
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“If you ditch the rulebook, you lose the grace. Even the wacky, avant-garde, convention-defying arts—experimental film, expressionist painting, professional wrestling—draw their power from playing against the limitations of the chosen medium.”
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“The secret to solving big problems, I learned, is knowing which little problems to ignore.”
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