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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...