Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math - Brossura

Berke, Alex

Brossura

ISBN 10: 026253892X ISBN 13: 9780262538923

Casa editrice: The MIT Press, 2020

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 026253892X
• ISBN 13: 9780262538923
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile