One of his next books was Moby-Dick. The novel is thick with math, from the concept of a quoin — a kind of lopsided wedge, which the main character Ishmael defines through geometric descriptions ...

Those are lines from a children’s math book, but there’s a reason they ... He discusses counting in base eight using the eight-­fingered characters from The Simpsons. One chapter approaches ...

It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles ... reason to stop with the physical sciences; in his new book, The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles ...

The goal of her book, she tells us, “is to convince you not only that mathematics and literature are inextricably, and fundamentally, linked, but that understanding these links can enhance your ...

Beveridge, an associate professor of mathematics at Macalester ... that involved keeping track of every character interaction in the third (and best) book, A Storm of Swords.

The Math Forum’s Max Ray will celebrate the release of his new book, Powerful Problem-Solving: Activities for Making Sense with the Mathematical Practices, with a national release event on Wednesday, ...