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Print ISBN: 978-1-4704-4736-6
Product Code: MBK/115
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Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4704-4891-2
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Life on the Infinite Farm
Share this pageRichard Evan Schwartz
Pay a visit to the Infinite Farm!
In Life on the Infinite Farm, mathematician and
award-winning children's book author Richard Schwartz teaches about
infinity and curved space through stories of whimsical farm
animals. Join Gracie, the shoe-loving cow with infinitely many feet,
Hammerwood, the gum-loving crocodile with an endless mouth, and their
friends as they navigate the challenges that come with being
infinitely large.
Children as young as 5 will enjoy the lighthearted illustrations
and the fanciful approach to infinity. Older students (and even adult
professional mathematicians) will also appreciate the more advanced
ideas and geometric references. The two approaches are woven together
to appeal to a wide audience, from budding mathematicians to hardcore
geometers.
A Guide for
Teachers and Parents is freely available with both simple and
advanced lesson plans.
Additionally, page-by-page
Notes on the
Infinite Farm are also available. These notes are intended for a
sophisticated mathematical audience but, perhaps, will be of some
interest to people who are not mathematicians.
Readership
For children ages 5 and up interested in new ways to think of space and geometry.
Reviews & Endorsements
The simple notion of infinity as 'going on forever' is communicated quite thoroughly in this book, which interleaves mathematically simple and more complex material so that a reader may explore infinity and the notion of curved space as deeply as he or she may wish...[it] has something to offer readers at all levels.
-- Mark Bollman, Mathematical Reviews
As with all of Schwartz's picture books, the illustrations are engaging, very boldly colored, cute, and silly...The pictures are fun enough to amuse my kids, and the mathematics deep enough to entertain me but illustrated and narrated well enough to make sense to my older kids...I am happy they have a place on our family bookshelf. The infinite farm is a very welcome addition to that collection.
-- Geoffrey Dietz, MAA Reviews
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Life on the Infinite Farm