Paul Lockhart

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 …

REGOLA N° 1 L’equazione (MATEMATICA = NOIA + FATICA) è sbagliata.REGOLA N° 2 Non esiste nulla di più idealistico e poetico, nulla di più radicale, sovversivo e psichedelico della matematica.Formule da memorizzare, procedure da seguire, definizionida ripetere parola per parola, simboli astrusi da manipolare:è questa la …

For seven years, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K-12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them …