tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post6494758103926994659..comments2024-03-16T12:33:09.741-05:00Comments on <center>Landscape Plotted and Pieced</center>: Wednesays with Words: Beauty for Truth's SakeKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-18838639269127653542014-08-19T14:19:30.440-05:002014-08-19T14:19:30.440-05:00I don't remember how old #3 is, but I have som...I don't remember how old #3 is, but I have some others he might be interested in, especially if you've gotten A History of Pi for him and he's enjoyed it.<br /><br />The first is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Quadrivium-Classical-Liberal-Geometry-Cosmology/dp/0802778135" rel="nofollow">Quadrivium</a> (which I bought from Eighth Day Books at the conference, but it's almost twice as much as from Amazon). It's a compilation of six books, which you can buy separately if you like, but it's beautiful and interesting.<br /><br />The next is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/History-Mathematics-Carl-B-Boyer/dp/0470525487" rel="nofollow">A History of Mathematics</a>, which I've quoted from a bit the last few months. It's fairly scholarly, but I can read it, and it's just full of information and has a HUGE bibliography.<br /><br />Last, there's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Nonmathematician-Dover-Books/dp/0486248232" rel="nofollow">Mathematics for the Nonmathemactician</a>, which was recommended to me at the conference by Ravi Jain, one of the authors of <i>The Liberal Arts Tradition</i> (someone in my blogging circle is reading that right now -- Mystie, maybe?). Anyway, tell him not to be put off by the title. It was written in the 1950s for liberals arts majors to fulfill their college math requirement, so it's intelligently written and puts math into its historical and philosophical context. Also at the end of every chapter there's a long "Recommended reading" list.<br /><br />Hope y'all are setting in well -- I've missed your posts!<br />Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-35061700776840575602014-08-19T13:50:42.903-05:002014-08-19T13:50:42.903-05:00Thank you for the math book ideas. DS #3 is my ma...Thank you for the math book ideas. DS #3 is my math kid and I'm always looking for books about math that are winsome, not just a bunch of facts.<br /><br />Thanks for the information on the Wednesdays with Words link up. I plan to get back to that on my blog once we finish moving and I take ds #1 back to college next week. jlthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01293720624466655384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-20937282064105865482014-08-13T20:38:05.345-05:002014-08-13T20:38:05.345-05:00Yeah, I'm working on it. I've bought a fe...Yeah, I'm working on it. I've bought a few books -- The Librarian who Measured the Earth, Archimedes and the Door of Science, and <a href="www.amazon.com/The-History-Counting-Denise-Schmandt-Besserat/dp/0688141188/" rel="nofollow">The History of Counting</a>.<br /><br />Do you follow the Let's Play Math blog? She has a lot of recommendations -- <a href="http://letsplaymath.net/my-lets-play-math-books/elementary-and-middle-school/" rel="nofollow">here's her section on the history of math</a>. <br /><br />Also, read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Joyce-Mcpherson/e/B00665Z6NY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1407979598&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Joyce McPherson's biographies of Blaise Pascal and Isaac Newton,</a> plus Carry On, Mr Bowditch, and anything else you can think of like that. Our library has a pathetic math section, so it only has ONE children's bio of a mathematician, but yours might be better.<br /><br />There's a delightful out of print book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Those-Calculating-Crows-Ali-Wakefield/dp/0590273558" rel="nofollow">Those Calculating Crows</a> that's based on a true story. Isaac Asimov's book, Realm of Numbers, also out of print, is really good. It's not written for children so you probably wouldn't use it as a read-aloud, but he has a winsome style and you'd learn a lot from him that would inform your teaching.<br /><br />HTH. I'll post others as I think of them.<br /><br /><br />Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-1837941814688855332014-08-13T19:57:42.267-05:002014-08-13T19:57:42.267-05:00I love that third quote I just wish I knew how to ...I love that third quote I just wish I knew how to *do* it.dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17987916970944867015noreply@blogger.com