Measurement [Audiobook] download free by Paul Lockhart
- Listen audiobook: Measurement
- Author: Paul Lockhart
- Release date: 2014/7/22
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780674284388
- Rating: 7.03 of 10
- Votes: 357
- Review by: Bishop Mckee
- Review rating: 7.11 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/4
- Duration: 5H8M29S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 SLS, FLAC, WMA, WAV, MP3, OGG, MPEG4 (compression TAR.BZ2, RAR, ZIP, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 47 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 34M24S (9.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: For seven years, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K-12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them to math the wrong way. Here Lockhart offers the positive side of the math education story by showing us how math should be done. Measurement offers a permanent solution to math phobia by introducing us to mathematics 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 pictures over jargon and formulas, he succeeds in making complex ideas about the mathematics of shape and motion intuitive and graspable. His elegant discussion of mathematical reasoning and themes in classical geometry offers proof of his conviction that mathematics illuminates art as much as science.Lockhart leads us into a universe where beautiful designs and patterns float through our minds and do surprising, miraculous things. As we turn our thoughts to symmetry, circles, cylinders, and cones, we begin to see that almost anyone can 'do the math' in a way that brings emotional and aesthetic rewards. Measurement is an invitation to summon curiosity, courage, and creativity in order to experience firsthand the playful excitement of mathematical work.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Geometry, Calculus, Scientific Standards, Mathematics, History Of Mathematics, Teaching Of A Specific Subject, Applied Mathematics
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 26.15 USD
- Dimensions: 140x210x30.48mm
- Weight: 453.59g
- Printed by: The Belknap Press
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States
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