TY - BOOK AU - Orlin, Ben, TI - Math with bad drawings: illuminating the ideas that shape our reality SN - 9780316509046 AV - QA 93 .O75 2023 PY - 2023/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers KW - Mathematics KW - Popular works N1 - Includes bibliographical references; In Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about. His tools are unorthodox: stick-figure cartoons, strange-but-true stories, roughly six million jokes, and beneath it all, the empathy of a veteran teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin helps us to think like mathematicians by teaching a brand-new game of the tic-tac-toe, introducing the ten people you meet in line for the lottery, and laying out the headaches that ensue when the Evil Empire attempts to build a spherical Death Star. Math with Bad Drawings will change the way you see the subject – and the world ER -