Math With Bad Drawings Av Ben Orlin

<p><b>A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures.</b><br><br>In<i> Math with Bad Drawings,</i> Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about. His tools are unorthodox: jokes, cartoons, strange-but-true stories, and beneath it all, the empathy of a veteran teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin helps us to think like mathematicians by teaching a brand-new game of tic-tac-toe, profiling the ten people you meet in line for the lottery, and documenting the headaches that ensue when the Evil Empire attempts to build a spherical Death Star. <i>Math with Bad Drawings</i> will change the way you see the subject-and the world.</p>