The Joy of Thinking: The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas (Audiobook)

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The Joy of Thinking is a course about fun, aesthetics, and mystery—about great mathematical ideas that arise from puzzles, observations of everyday life, and habits of curiosity and effective thinking. It is as much about learning to think abstractly as it is about what we traditionally think of as mathematics.

You explore the fourth dimension, coincidences, fractals, the allure of number, and geometry, and bring these weighty notions back down to Earth to see how they apply to your own life.

Rather than focusing on adding figures or creating equations (in fact, there are fewer numbers than you might expect), this course will enable you to uncover and grasp insightful strategies for approaching, enjoying, and understanding the world around you.

“Wonderful… the Best”

Taught by Professors Edward B. Burger of Williams College and Michael Starbird of the University of Texas at Austin, this course is based on their innovative textbook, The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking, which a reviewer for The American Mathematical Monthly called “wonderful… possibly the best ‘mathematics for the non-mathematician’ book that I have seen.”