Tag: Mathematician

January 5, 2024

x+y A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

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Free Download x+y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
English | July 16th, 2020 | ISBN: 178816041X | 272 pages | True EPUB | 3.06 MB
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to make the world a better place.

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September 28, 2023

I Want to be a Mathematician An Automathography

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Free Download I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography by Paul R. Halmos
English | PDF | 1985 | 428 Pages | ISBN : 0387960783 | 66.6 MB
This is an automathography, a mathematical biography written by its subject. It is definitely not a mathematics book, and, even more definitely, it is not the story of my origins and my life. Sure, I had parents (two), and wives (two, one at a time, the present one for forty years), and cats (eight, two at a time, the present two for three years). I had and have many faults, and, I’m pretty sure, a few virtues. I like Haydn, long walks, Nero Wolfe, and dark beer, and for a few years I tried TM. All that is true, but it’s none of your business-that’s not what this book is about.

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September 20, 2023

A Mathematician’s Lament How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

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Free Download A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart, Matthew Josdal, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09WW34B3T | 2 hours and 58 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 163 Mb
A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart’s controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever.

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