Another Sort of Mathematics

Auteur

J. Jacob Tawney serves as the Chief Academic Officer for Great Hearts Academies, a network of classical charter schools across multiple states. Mr. Tawney has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He continued his studies at The Ohio State University where he earned a masters degree in mathematics. During his time in Ohio, Mr. Tawney also taught at the Pontifical College Josephinum, including courses in Euclid and the Philosophy of Mathematics. In 2014 he relocated his family to Phoenix, AZ to join Great Hearts Academies. Mr. Tawney is the proud husband of Christina Tawney and the proud father of eight children, all of whom have something unique in their souls that can only be satisfied by wondering about mathematics.

Texte du rabat

Years ago, James V. Schall wrote Another Sort of Learning, a book detailing those things you should read but probably were not ever made to read. It is not a curriculum, except maybe one "for life." The book you are holding is something of a mathematical tribute to Schall's basic idea and is aptly titled Another Sort of Mathematics - Selected Proofs Necessary to Finally Acquire an Education in Mathematics: Containing a Myriad of Other Theorems, Unsolved Problems, and Interesting Tidbits Nowhere Else in Captivity to Be Found. Like Schall's book, this is also not a curriculum. It is, however, a list of "those things from mathematics you should have learned but probably didn't." The theorems and proofs in this book represent, in a small way, some of the best that has been said within the discipline of mathematics. There is something unique in the human soul that can only be satisfied by wondering about mathematics. The audacious thing is that I actually believe this. And that means, regardless of your background, this book is for you. Reclaim your mathematical inheritance. Become the mathematician that is within you. Choose to wonder.