The Mending of Broken Bones

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Paul Lockhart is the author of Arithmetic, Measurement, and A Mathematician's Lament. After a career as a research mathematician at Brown University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, he spent two decades teaching algebra at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn.

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The Mending of Broken Bones reveals that far from a set of mundane exercises, algebra is the delicate craft of untangling numerical puzzles to uncover the hidden patterns and surprising behaviors of the numbers themselves. As Paul Lockhart shows, you don't have to be a mathematician to experience the joy and creativity of mathematical discovery.