{"product_id":"math-without-numbers-paperback","title":"Math Without Numbers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMilo Beckman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call \"math\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMath Without Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math--topology, analysis, and algebra--which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful subject. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Like the classic math allegory \u003ci\u003eFlatland\u003c\/i\u003e, first published over a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadter's \u003ci\u003eGodel, Escher, Bach\u003c\/i\u003e forty years ago, there has never been a math book quite like \u003ci\u003eMath Without Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi or zero or infinity. This book goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected, useful connections to the real world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The ambitions of this book take a special kind of author. An inventive, original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen, when he was a sophomore at Harvard; while writing this book, he was studying the philosophical foundations of physics at Columbia under Brian Greene, among others.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilo Beckman has been addicted to math since a young age. Born in Manhattan in 1995, he began taking math classes at Stuyvesant High School at age eight and was captain of the New York City Math Team by age thirteen. His diverse projects and independent research have been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFiveThirtyEight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBusiness Insider\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGothamist\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. He worked for three tech companies, two banks, and a US senator before retiring at age nineteen to teach math in New York, China, and Brazil, and to work on this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692310433855,"sku":"9781524745561","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0204efb0aa6081b04c94c2efc3c8c446.webp?v=1764995028","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/math-without-numbers-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}