parias1126 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 :bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 You've seen the reading lists on the Living Math site? Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohdanigirl Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 :bigear: and I love the Living Math site. Danielle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 (edited) These may dribble out as I remember some we've liked. There are a number of very interesting books by the Japanese artist/mathematician Mitsumasa Anno that were especially interesting. They rage from a very introductory Counting book to a variety of math game books. These are very highly esteemed (by me) and my son really like these. The Number Devil was very good, at the end some of the math was a little beyond my son so we will return to it. The "What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?" (read this week) was undoubtedly inaccurate on a "historical" level, but quite fun and got my son very interested in angles and in solving problems based on the Pythagorean theorem (which is pretty cool). We have enjoyed Greg Tang. It has been awhile, but there are the Sir Cumference books. There was some slight thing I dimly recollect being slightly off in the book on pi. Phantom Tollbooth doesn't exactly fit the genre, but sort of. I want to re-read Archimedes and the Door of Science with him. I actually read it to him years ago (but he had not really acquired language skills yet, so I'm not sure how much he picked up :D). Not strictly a "math" book, but good. There is the book The Librarian who Measured the Earth about Eratosthenes. There is one (whose name and author slip my mind, perhaps someone else will remember?) that is picture based with dots and is about visualizing "one million." There must be others. Bill Edited April 21, 2011 by Spy Car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Researcher Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Thank you Bill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 With all due respect to Bill's willingness to share his thoughts on math, I have to say that a more general thread about math books -- and a thread title that reflects the content -- might be more likely to get others to contribute their suggestions as well. I would be interested in contributing to such a thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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