Mathematics with Silly Drawings: Ideas that Shape Our Reality

Do you shudder at the memory of your school math lessons? That's normal, because you weren't taught by Ben Orlin, the author of this book. However, he also didn't immediately realize that math underpins everything in the world: from lotteries to 'Star Wars', from chocolate pie recipes to elections. And that anyone who masters the basics of the exact science can understand the nature and structure of the things and phenomena around us. Orlin acts not only as a teacher but also as an artist-illustrator: his funny little characters and doodles have won over thousands of schoolchildren and will win you over too. Elegant puns and amusing associations, mind games and numerical puzzles (each of which you will receive an elegant and ironic solution for) and, of course, the famous signature drawings (which, contrary to the title, aren't really that silly) allow Orlin to convey even the most complex and profound mathematical ideas with ease and wit and convince you that even math can be frighteningly interesting.