Review:
2016 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award Winner
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"Illustrations designed to introduce doodlers to a range of challenging mathematical principles."--Science
"Flipping through this new coloring book is a mesmerizing journey. From perfect hexagonal tilings to luscious sine waves to nautilus shell spirals, every line illustration by mathematical artist Edmund Harriss (and a handful of others) brings a hypnotic sense of harmony."--Science Friday
"Enough coloring inside the lines--it's time to start coloring inside the cosines."--WIRED
"Think coloring books are just for little kids? Think again."--Boys' Life
"An intricate, geeky coloring book for adults."--Independent on Sunday
"A beautiful math coloring book offering young and old alike the joy of patterns that are pleasing and rigorous, regular and creative, all at the same time."--Cédric Villani, Fields medalist and author of Birth of a Theorem
"A math coloring book for kids and adults . . . Irresistible!"--Steven Strogatz, author of The Joy of x
"I wouldn't have expected anything less from math adventurer Bellos and mathematical artist and tiling fan Harriss, whose personalities both come through in the book--from the beautiful illustrations to the playful style. . . . The range of types of math on display is super. . . . A beautiful object."--Aperiodical blog
"This is big fun. . . . Just looking at these pages is a treat--they have a life all their own, even before color is applied. . . . A coloring book with a sharp new angle."--The Papercraft Post blog
"Adds a bit of braininess to the relatively simple act of coloring while keeping the stress-relieving benefits."--Adult Coloring 101
About the Author:
Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here's Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, and So You Think You've Got Problems?, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.
Edmund Harriss is a mathematical artist and clinical assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas. He is the discoverer of the Harriss spiral. His research has appeared in Nature and in publications of the National Academy of Science and the American Mathematical Society. He has led many math workshops, including at the Museum of Mathematics in New York, appeared several times on the Numberphile Youtube channel, and was the academic director of a summer camp for mathematically gifted elementary students. He is also the creator of Curvahedra, a mathematical construction toy, and is coauthor of the mathematical coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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