The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking

I really liked this book, even as a mathematics major. It was a great introduction to areas of math I thought I had no interest in as well as a good overview of effective mathematical thinking. After reading this book and taking a course that went along with it I developed a new-found interest in graph theory, which was an area I thought I hated.If you think you hate mathematics, this is a good book for you. The explanations of seemingly-intimidating concepts are clear and there are lots of explanations of how you see these phenomena in the "real world."Overall, I highly recommend this.

It's a bit too cute for my liking in its presentation of concepts. It gets the job done, but I feel like professors have to go out of the way to simplify some of the poor explanations within the book.

it was good

The book served its purpose.

rental book for school. dropped class

As promised, this book makes math fun. I've been out of college for over 40 years, and I am having a ball with this book. I always liked math, it just did not like me. Learning the math of the Universal Product Code (UPC) and Bank Account Routing numbers was worth the price of the book.

Not what I expected for a math book, but in all fairness, we were rushed through it. I will be retaking the class in the fall lol

I am fine with it being damaged just want to show that it showed up this way and it was not me

I was worried that it would be in black&white and not come with 3D glasses. It is in color and it comes with the glasses! The paper is thin (that goes for the hard cover too) though. Be careful with the pages.Near the beginning the authors give the reasoning behind the front cover image; they explain that they want you to color it. The binder ready version has a banner explaining the advantages of a binder ready version on its front cover, covering part of the image you're encouraged to color in.

dieses Buch führ auf sehr anregende, motivierende und Spaß-machende Weise in mathematische Probleme ein und ist ein sehr gangbarer Weg, seine Denkgewohnheiten mit Hilfe der Mathematik sich bewußt zu machen und effizienter zu gestalten