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Measurement

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Description for Measurement Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: PBKA; PBM; PBW; PBX; PDDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 464.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674284388
SKU
V9780674284388
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About Paul Lockhart
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.

Reviews for Measurement
A love song and a philosophical manifesto about the pleasures and frustrations, but mainly the pleasures, of doing math.
Steven Strogatz, New York Times contributor and author of The Joy of X In place of the usual boxed and high-lighted formulas and tricks, Measurement offers questions to be pondered. Lockhart invites readers to trade tutorial fake problems about actual ... Read more

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