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Looking for Math in All the Wrong Places: Math in Real Life
 
Shai Simonson Stonehill College, North Easton, MA
Looking for Math in All the Wrong Places
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-7012-8
Product Code:  SPEC/104
List Price: $35.00
MAA Member Price: $26.25
AMS Member Price: $26.25
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-7149-1
Product Code:  SPEC/104.E
List Price: $35.00
MAA Member Price: $26.25
AMS Member Price: $26.25
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-7012-8
eBook: ISBN:  978-1-4704-7149-1
Product Code:  SPEC/104.B
List Price: $70.00 $52.50
MAA Member Price: $52.50 $39.38
AMS Member Price: $52.50 $39.38
Looking for Math in All the Wrong Places
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Looking for Math in All the Wrong Places: Math in Real Life
Shai Simonson Stonehill College, North Easton, MA
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-7012-8
Product Code:  SPEC/104
List Price: $35.00
MAA Member Price: $26.25
AMS Member Price: $26.25
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-7149-1
Product Code:  SPEC/104.E
List Price: $35.00
MAA Member Price: $26.25
AMS Member Price: $26.25
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-7012-8
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-7149-1
Product Code:  SPEC/104.B
List Price: $70.00 $52.50
MAA Member Price: $52.50 $39.38
AMS Member Price: $52.50 $39.38
  • Book Details
     
     
    Spectrum
    Volume: 1042022; 209 pp
    MSC: Primary 00; 05; 97

    The soul of mathematics is the practice of skeptical inquiry: asking how and why things work, experimenting, exploring, and discovering. Estimation, analysis, computation, conjecture, and proof are the mathematical path to uncovering truth and we can use them in nearly every human pursuit. In this thoroughly charming and beguiling book, Shai Simonson applies mathematical tools in a variety of contexts that arise in everyday life to prove his claim that math is, literally, everywhere. Simonson applies his mathematical cast of mind to hiking, birthday parties, carnival games, lock picking, and kite flying. We see unexpected depths and connections when we look in the “wrong” places in the right way.

    No advanced mathematical knowledge is required to travel with Simonson and share in his investigations. All a reader needs is an open and curious mind, an eagerness to ask questions, and a willingness to think deeply and carefully about seemingly mundane things. There is wonder and joy in quotidian life with Simonson as your guide.

    Readership

    Undergraduate students interested in seeing mathematics in unusual applications.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • Introduction
    • Summer carnivals
    • Games
    • Holidays
    • Magic
    • Locks
    • Limits
    • Wine and averages
    • Music
    • Parabolas, caternaries, and kites
    • A day in the woods
    • Viral puzzles
    • Happy birthday
    • COVID-19
    • Estimations
    • High-tech interviews
    • Sports
    • Appendix. Java program for simplex locks
  • Reviews
     
     
    • Rarely have I enjoyed a book so much.

      Paul J. Campbell, Reviews Editor, MAA's Mathematics Magazine
  • Requests
     
     
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Volume: 1042022; 209 pp
MSC: Primary 00; 05; 97

The soul of mathematics is the practice of skeptical inquiry: asking how and why things work, experimenting, exploring, and discovering. Estimation, analysis, computation, conjecture, and proof are the mathematical path to uncovering truth and we can use them in nearly every human pursuit. In this thoroughly charming and beguiling book, Shai Simonson applies mathematical tools in a variety of contexts that arise in everyday life to prove his claim that math is, literally, everywhere. Simonson applies his mathematical cast of mind to hiking, birthday parties, carnival games, lock picking, and kite flying. We see unexpected depths and connections when we look in the “wrong” places in the right way.

No advanced mathematical knowledge is required to travel with Simonson and share in his investigations. All a reader needs is an open and curious mind, an eagerness to ask questions, and a willingness to think deeply and carefully about seemingly mundane things. There is wonder and joy in quotidian life with Simonson as your guide.

Readership

Undergraduate students interested in seeing mathematics in unusual applications.

  • Chapters
  • Introduction
  • Summer carnivals
  • Games
  • Holidays
  • Magic
  • Locks
  • Limits
  • Wine and averages
  • Music
  • Parabolas, caternaries, and kites
  • A day in the woods
  • Viral puzzles
  • Happy birthday
  • COVID-19
  • Estimations
  • High-tech interviews
  • Sports
  • Appendix. Java program for simplex locks
  • Rarely have I enjoyed a book so much.

    Paul J. Campbell, Reviews Editor, MAA's Mathematics Magazine
Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
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