Böcker av Paul Lockhart

The Mending of Broken Bones reveals that far from a set of mundane exercises, algebra is the delicate craft of untangling numerical puzzles to uncover the hidden patterns and surprising behaviors of the numbers themselves. As Paul Lockhart shows, you don't have to be a mathematician to experience the joy and creativity of mathematical discovery.

How military technology has transformed the world

Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems-Western and non-Western-and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.

Paul Lockhart here presents a survey of the point in history when Sweden rose to pre-eminence in Europe. Drawing on the latest literature in Swedish and other languages, he examines the institutions of the Swedish 'empire' at the height of its influence, and considers questions regarding its rise and fall.