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Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math - Couverture souple

Berke, Alex

 
9780262538923: Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 026253892X ISBN 13 : 9780262538923
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2020

Synopsis

A coloring book that invites readers to explore symmetry and the beauty of math visually.

Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics playfully, coloring through ideas usually reserved for advanced courses. The book is for children and adults, for math nerds and math avoiders, for educators, students, and coloring enthusiasts.

Through illustration, language that is visual, and words that are jargon-free, the book introduces group theory as the mathematical foundation for discussions of symmetry, covering symmetry groups that include the cyclic groups, frieze groups, and wallpaper groups. The illustrations are drawn by algorithms, following the symmetry rules for each given group. The coloring challenges can be completed and fully realized only on the page; solutions are provided. Online, in a complementary digital edition, the illustrations come to life with animated interactions that show the symmetries that generated them.

Traditional math curricula focus on arithmetic and the manipulation of numbers, and may make some learners feel that math is not for them. By offering a more visual and tactile approach, this book shows how math can be for everyone. Combining the playful and the pedagogical, Beautiful Symmetry offers both relaxing entertainment for recreational colorers and a resource for math-curious readers, students, and educators.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alex Berke is currently at the MIT Media Lab. She previously worked as a technologist, most recently as a software engineer at Google.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
026253892X
ISBN 13 
9780262538923
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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