Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices

ISBN-13: 9780933174740 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 72 str.

Theoni Pappas

Opis

Who would have ever thought there was a direct way to connect mathematical concepts to poetry?
Creative juices were certainly at work when this book of mathematical dialogues was created by Theoni Pappas. It presents a
new way to enjoy and learn mathematical ideas via poetic dialogues read by two people. A new twist to mathematical themes.

--24 delightful and informative poetic dialogues for exploring math ideas.--
- TOPIC POEMS INCLUDE-
- Mathematics - Circles - Proper fractions - Fractals
- Fibonacci numbers - One - Operations - Imaginary numbers
- Mobius strip - Zero - Squares - Operations
- Variables - Radicals - Triangles - - Primes - Dimensions
- Golden Mean - e, & i (for three voices)
- Integers - Tessellations - Even numbers
- Googols - We are numbers.