The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity Nature_Gift_Guide —Karen Russell

—Karen Russell

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The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity Nature_Gift_Guide —Karen Russell"Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!" Scientific American Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly,