How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life

by Susan D'Agostino

How to Free Your Inner Notes on Mathematics and Life offers readers guidance in managing the fear, freedom, frustration, and joy that often accompany calls to think mathematically. With practical insight and years of award-winning mathematics teaching experience, D'Agostino offers more than 300 hand-drawn sketches alongside accessible descriptions of fractals, symmetry, fuzzy logic, knot theory, Penrose patterns, infinity, the Twin Prime Conjecture, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem, and other intriguing mathematical topics.

Readers are encouraged to embrace change, proceed at their own pace, mix up their routines, resist comparison, have faith, fail more often, look for beauty, exercise their imaginations, and define success for themselves.

Mathematics students and enthusiasts will learn advice for fostering courage on their journey regardless of age or mathematical background. How to Free Your Inner Mathematician delivers not only engaging mathematical content but provides reassurance that mathematical success has more to do with curiosity and drive than innate aptitude.

Genres: Mathematics

368 pages, Hardcover

Published May 26, 2020

Reviews

[Mostafa]

ما كمّلته لكن الكتاب جميل، يستطلع عدة أفكار ونظريات وأحداث تاريخية رياضية بطريقة سهلة وممتعة، وتربطها الكاتبة بدرس حياتي معين.

[Julie]

2.5
I liked the childhood storyline better than the young adult part. Not satisfied with the ending.

[Wendy W]

Inspiring and easy to read for non-mathematicians. However, part 3 is a bit difficult to follow. I am not sure whether it was a problem of the description/translation or if the concepts themselves are beyond my understanding.