Eddie Woo

Eddie Woo, one of the world's top ten teachers and a YouTube phenom, delivers a rollicking, must-listen pop-math book. Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronized swimmer? What makes 2.718 a magic number? These may not look like math questions at first glance-but they are, because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns-from familiar shapes and symmetries,...