It's a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere, Paperback

Description

Eddie Woo, one of the world's top ten teachers and a YouTube phenom, delivers a rollicking pop-math read brimming with visuals (and heart)

Publisher's note: It's a Numberful World was published in Australia under the title Woo's Wonderful World of Maths.

• Why is a rainbow curved?
• Why aren't left-handers extinct?
• How is a sunflower like a synchronized swimmer?
• What makes 2.718 a magic number?

These may not look like math questions at first glance--but they are, because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns--from familiar shapes and symmetries, to mysterious values like the golden ratio, which seem to crop up wherever you look for them.

Looking for patterns changed Eddie Woo's life--by turning the "dry" subject he had dreaded in high school into a boundless exploration suffused with joy. Today, he's an award-winning math teacher, and now, he's here to win you over, too. Here are 26 bite-size chapters on Woo's favorite mathematical marvels--from the synchronized sine waves we hear as "music," to the immense prime numbers (once a mere curiosity) that are now essential to data encryption.

This book will change your mind about what math can be. We are all born mathematicians--and It's a Numberful World

About the Author

Eddie Woo is the head mathematics teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School in Sydney, Australia. He has been teaching mathematics for more than ten years. In 2012, Eddie started recording his lessons and uploading them to YouTube, creating "Wootube." Since then, he has amassed a following of more than 507,000 subscribers, and his videos have been viewed more than 27 million times. In 2018, Eddie was named Australia's Local Hero of the Year and shortlisted as one of the top ten teachers in the world.