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It's a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere - from the Crown of a Tree to the Sound of a Sine Wave

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2021 Mathical Honor Book


Why aren't left-handers extinct?

What makes a rainbow round?

How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum?

These may not look like math questions, but they are-because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns.

That realization changed Eddie Woo's life-by turning the "dry" subject he dreaded in high school into a boundless quest for discovery. Now an award-winning math teacher, Woo sees patterns everywhere: in the "branches" of bl...