Its a Numberful World - Eddie Woo
2021 Mathical Honor BookWhy aren't left-handers extinct?What makes a rainbow round?How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum?Publisher's note: It's a Numberful World was published in Australia under the…
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2021 Mathical Honor BookWhy aren't left-handers extinct?What makes a rainbow round?How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum?Publisher's note: It's a Numberful World was published in Australia under the title Woo's Wonderful World of Maths.These may not look like math questions, but they are--because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns.That realization changed Eddie Woo's life--by turning the "dry" subject he dreaded in high school into a boundless quest for discovery. Now an award-winning math teacher, Woo sees patterns everywhere: in the "branches" of blood vessels and lightning, in the growth of a savings account and a sunflower, even in his morning cup of teaHere are twenty-six bite-size chapters on the hidden mathematical marvels that encrypt our email,