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Arithmetic

Arithmetic

Lockhart, Paul

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General Mathematics

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ISBN10: 067423751X
ISBN13: 9780674237513
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: Jul 15 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read.
--Wall Street Journal

This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math.
--Science News

Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own remarkable advantages.

Paul Lockhart presents arithmetic not as rote manipulation of numbers--a practical if mundane branch of knowledge best suited for filling out tax forms--but as a fascinating, sometimes surprising intellectual craft that arises from our desire to add, divide, and multiply important things. Passionate and entertaining, Arithmetic invites us to experience the beauty of mathematics through the eyes of a beguiling teacher.

A nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting procedures that we once learned by rote with intuitions long since muddled by education...Lockhart presents arithmetic as a pleasurable pastime, and describes it as a craft like knitting.

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