Measurement, Paul Lockhart
Measurement, Paul Lockhart
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Measurement

Author: Paul Lockhart

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/18/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

For seven years, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K–12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them to math the wrong way. Here Lockhart offers the positive side of the math education story by showing us how math should be done. Measurement offers a permanent solution to math phobia by introducing us to mathematics as an artful way of thinking and living.

In conversational prose that conveys his passion for the subject, Lockhart makes mathematics accessible without oversimplifying. He makes no more attempt to hide the challenge of mathematics than he does to shield us from its beautiful intensity. Favoring plain English over jargon and formulas, he succeeds in making complex ideas about the mathematics of shape and motion intuitive and graspable. His elegant discussion of mathematical reasoning and themes in classical geometry offers proof of his conviction that mathematics illuminates art as much as science.

Measurement is an invitation to summon curiosity, courage, and creativity in order to experience firsthand the playful excitement of mathematical work.


About Paul Lockhart

Paul Lockhart is a professor of history specializing in early modern Europe, Scandinavian history, and military history at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He has also taught at the Institut for Historie, Kultur og Samfundsbeskrivelse, Odense Universitet, in Denmark and at the State University of New York/Potsdam College. He is the author of Denmark, 1513–1660: The Rise and Decline of a Renaissance Monarchy and Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559–1596. Paul earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on February 04, 2015

Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays; not only do the scholars, critics and directors disagree on what the play is about, and on whether it should be called a "romantic comedy", a "satiric comedy", or a "tragicomedy", but the evaluations range from one of his best wor......more