Measurement

Hardcover, 407 pages

English language

Published Dec. 28, 2012 by Harvard University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-674-05755-5
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OCLC Number:
784123580

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4 stars (5 reviews)

Explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living.

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I picked this up because I'm a big fan of the authors essay Mathematicians Lament, which resonated with me a lot, especially when I worked in problems for student math's olympiads and similar. This book however is more of a mathematics textbook and picking it up in audio probably only worked for me because I wasn't learning from it, not much anyway, not the mathematics, which I knew. That aside, I still love the authors style of writing and way of introducing all the concepts. I feel like this was the best kind of refresher of these mathematical ideas for me. I also appreciated my university instructors, as a lot of the way things were presented felt like it was how it was taught to me.

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5 stars

I first heard of Paul Lockhart when someone mentioned his "Lament" about mathematics teaching and went on to read the "Measurement". This book extends several of the ideas about teaching and reasoning from the "Lament", and makes one re-think what we took for granted about basic theorems and conjectures, mostly in geometry. Many great small problems to entertain oneself while seeing the maths as the creative endeavour that it is.

As a a side note, the negative review with the highest number of 'likes' is completely and utterly out of touch with what the book is about. I'm impressed, however by the eloquence of the review author, and how he attacks first the person, instead of the book or its message:

"...The color green is a significant measure of not just the bananas but my life, at least what remains of it. I don’t know if anyone else uses this …

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  • Geometry