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• Title:Burn math class : and reinvent mathematics for yourself / Jason Wilkes.
  
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• Variant Title:Reinvent mathematics for yourself
  
• Author/Creator:Wilkes, Jason, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA93 .W55 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mathematics--Popular works.
  
• Description:392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:The author focuses on how mathematics is created rather than on mathematical facts and teaches the subject without requiring memorization or any mathematical knowledge beyond basic computation.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0465053734 hardcover
  9780465053735 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Act I
  1. Ex Nihilo
  1.1. Forgetting Mathematics
  1.2. How to Invent a Mathematical Concept
  1.3. Reunion
  Interlude 1 Dilating Time
  Things You Never See
  Shortcut Distances
  Fiction of Absolute Time
  2. Infinite Power of the Infinite Magnifying Glass
  2.1. Turning Hard Stuff into Easy Stuff
  2.2. Inventing Calculus
  2.3. Understanding the Magnifying Glass
  2.4. Hunting Extremes in the Dark
  2.5. Brief Sermon on Rigor
  2.6. Reunion
  Interlude 2 How to Get Something from Nothing
  Ex Nihilo Redux: From an Abbreviation to an Idea?
  Why This Forces Zero Powers to Be 1
  Why This Forces Negative Powers to Be Handstands
  Why This Forces Fractional Powers to Be n-Cube Side Lengths
  3. As If Summoned from the Void
  3.1. Who Ordered That?
  3.2. !scitamehtaM eht gnikcirT
  3.3. Attractive New Character Enters
  3.4. Hammers, Patterns, and Hammer Patterns
  3.5. Phase Transition in the Creation Story
  3.6. Hammers and Chains
  3.7. Reunion
  Interlude 3 Backward Look to the Future
  pt. I End
  pt. II Beginning
  Act II
  4. On Circles and Giving Up
  4.1. Conceptual Centrifuge
  4.2. Impostor Syndrome
  4.3. Equivalences of Our Ignorances
  4.4. Mixture Separates
  4.5. What Is Meaningful
  4.6. Dilemma
  4.7. Moliere Is Dead! Long Live Moliere!
  4.8. Tiresome Cacophony of Superfluous Names
  4.9. Calculus of the Incalculable
  4.10. Reunion
  Interlude 4 Nostalgia Device
  Void Is No Place for an Entity
  Nostalgia for Plus-Times Machines
  5. Aesthetics and the Immovable Object
  5.1. Reaching into the Void
  5.2. Four Species
  5.3. Formal and the Informal
  5.4. Zoology of the MA Species
  5.5. MM Species
  5.6. Reunion
  Interlude 5 Two Clouds
  No More Mysteries?
  Intralude: Introduction to Meta and Steve
  SubIntralude: The Beweis Bar
  Extralude: The Existence Dilemma
  Act III
  6. Two in One
  6.1. Two is One
  6.2. Field-Testing the Fundamental Hammer
  6.3. Forging the Anti-Hammers
  6.4. Second Cloud
  6.5. Reunion
  Interlude 6 Slaying Sharp
  Best Served Cold
  Plan of Attack
  Excessive Pile of Weaponry
  Hammering with Reabbreviation
  Sharp Resists
  Back to the Drawing Board
  Unearthing Something We Buried
  Unleashing the Nostalgia Device
  Infinite Shattering with Anti-Hammers
  Sharp Yields
  N. New Is Old
  N.1. Bridge
  N.2. Notational Minefield of Multivariable Calculus
  N.3. Enough Symbol Games! How Can We Picture This?
  N.4. Is That All?
  N.5. Reunion
  Interlude N: (Mis)interpreted (Readings) (Re)interpreted
  Misinterpretation
  Reinterpretation
  N. Infinite Beauty of the Infinite Wilderness
  N.1. Surprising Unity of the Void
  N.2. Crossing the Rubicon
  N.3. Inventing Cannibal Calculus
  N.4. Pedagogical Mutilation of Infinite-Dimensional Calculus
  N.5. Infinite Jackpot: Putting Our Ideas to Work for Us
  N.6. Reunion
  N.7. Actions Speak Louder
  Chapterlude Ω: In Nihilo
  Eponymous
  MetaIntervention
  Book
  Dictionary
  From Our Terminology to Standard Terminology
  From Standard Terminology to Our Terminology.