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Math Without Numbers

Written by: Milo Beckman
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
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An audio tour of the structures and patterns we call "math"

This is an audiobook about math, but it contains no numbers.

Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This audiobook upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits listeners is a freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful subject.

Like the classic math allegory Flatland, first published over a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach forty years ago, there has never been a math book quite like Math Without Numbers. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi or zero or infinity. This audiobook goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected, useful connections to the real world.

The ambitions of this audiobook take a special kind of author. An inventive, original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen, when he was a sophomore at Harvard; while writing this book, he was studying the philosophical foundations of physics at Columbia under Brian Greene, among others.

*This audiobook includes a PDF of illustrations and additional concepts from the book. Mathematics Physics Science Math Puzzles
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It is a book about objective truths, models, human aspirations, life, and cultural bias. It stretches your reasoning in all directions and challenges all your beliefs. It's an absolute delight for anyone, regardless of the level of understanding of science or math. It made me purchase the ebook as well. It was a wonderful experience. The narration was excellent, too. In audiobooks that is a critical component of success. Great job!

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