Nonstandard Notebook Mathematically Ruled Pages For Unruly Thoughts
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Nonstandard Notebook
"Our civilization has the odd habit of printing books full of lines. We call these notebooks "ruled". It's an orderly, lawful word, as befits an orderly, lawful document. Of course, in a ruled notebook, the rules are there to invite writing, drawing, and thinking. The rules are riverbanks, and the river flowing between them is whatever you want it to be. How might changing the lines change the flow of thoughts between them? What if the straight parallels gave way to curves, clusters, and criss-crosses? What if the once-identical pages began to individuate and develop personalities? What ideas might come to life, if the rules grew unruly? Mathematics, liked line notebooks, does not enjoy a reputation for playful spontaneity. If you want to create an unruly notebook for nonstandard thoughts, it might seem that algebra is the last place you'd turn. But creativity is not (as we sometimes imagine) a matter of shaking off all constraints. It is about playing against them. We need rules, if only for the sake of breaking them. Plotted, written, and overruled by mathematicians, educators, and popularizers Tim Chartier and Amy Langville, and with a foreword by Ben Orlin, this book reveals math's creative side. We will see how straight lines can form fractal crenelations; how circles can disrupt and unify; how waves can create complex landscapes and famous faces. The rules of mathematics, this book shows, are like the rules of a notebook: invitations to play"--
Nonstandard Notebook
Author: Tim Chartier
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2024-10-10
A revolutionary notebook that challenges us to play outside (and with) the lines. A standard notebook displays page after page of horizontal lines. But what if we break the pattern? What if the ruled pages grew unruly? In this Nonstandard Notebook, lines twist, fragment, curve, and crisscross in beautiful formations. Each sheet is a distinctive work of imagination, asking us to draw, doodle, and journal in the same spirit. Page after page, as we journey from lines to parabolas to waves, deep questions arise—about form, art, and mathematics. How do we harness the infinite? Why do patterns permeate nature? What are the limitations and possibilities of human vision? Nonstandard Notebook explores these questions and more through its provocative and inspirational images, each displayed with the mathematics that generated it. We see how straight lines can form fractal crenellations, how circles can disrupt and unify, and how waves and scaling can form complex landscapes (or even famous faces). Created by mathematicians, educators, and math popularizers Tim Chartier and Amy Langville, and with a foreword from Ben Orlin (bestselling author of Math with Bad Drawings), Nonstandard Notebook shows that rules—both the rules of mathematics and the rules of a notebook—do not mark the end of creativity, but the beginning.
Mistakes Allow Thinking to Happen
Math is incredibly important in our lives and, without realizing it, we use mathematical concepts, as well as the skills we learn from doing math problems every day. Learning math is good for our brain and it helps us to think analytically and have better reasoning abilities. This Mathematics notebook can be used as a journal, travel notebook, diary, business / office notebook, gift, school journal, for students or math lovers, etc. * Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" * 120 pages * Softcover Bookbinding * Flexible Paperback