Lucas Blogs About Math With Bad Drawings
Wait, math is about more than numbers? So, what's this book's deal? You may be unsurprised to learn that Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas that Shape Our Reality is an educational book for grown-ups that tries to make mathematical concepts easily accessible to those of us who don't have a background in math. You took AP Calculus BC in high school. For a semester, but this is even more straightforward than that. Rather than trying to teach the reader how to perform complex calculations or solve equations, Orlin presents the reader with real world scenarios and explains the mathematics underpinning them. These practical demonstrations are divided up into five sections that broadly discuss: Mathematical Thinking, Geometry, Probability, Statistics, and Continuous/Discrete variables. Huh, so like a kind of practical guide to mathematical concepts? Yeah, it's not bogged down with a lot of equations (there are some in the endnotes) but instead stri...