Volumes, the MoMath book club
Love mathematics and books? Looking for a stimulating and fun discussion? Volumes, the MoMath book club, is just the thing for you. This reading group is designed especially for those interested in mathematics and science and how they affect our lives. No prior math or science background is necessary.
Next up
A discussion of
Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
Featuring the author Frank Farris
Hosted by Tim Chartier
Monday, April 3 at 6:30 pm ET
(online)
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Photo credit: Santa Clara University |
Join Distinguished Visiting Professor Tim Chartier for an engaging discussion of Creating Symmetry with author Frank Farris.
This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Frank Farris’ new waveform approach enables you to create an endless variety of rosettes, friezes, and wallpaper patterns. Frank is a two-term former editor of Mathematics Magazine and has received numerous awards, including a Trevor Evans Award for his article “The Edge of the Universe” in Math Horizons and the David E. Logothetti Teaching Award at Santa Clara University, where he has taught since 1984.
Would you like to register for free?
Order Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns from Additions, the shop at MoMath, and help support the premier math museum in North America while also scoring free registration to this engaging conversation with Tim Chartier and author Frank Farris. Simply place your order online or stop by the shop to purchase in person, then email your receipt to additions@momath.org.
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Prior Volumes Selections:
- Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
- The Joy of SET by Liz McMahon, Gary Gordon, Hannah Gordon, and Rebecca Gordon
- Who’s Counting? by John Allen Paulos, with special guest Julia Harrison
- Mathematics, Magic and Mystery by Martin Gardner
- Get in the Game by Tim Chartier
- A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson
- How to Free Your Inner Mathematician by Susan D’Agostino
- The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
- Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky
- The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs
- The Calculus of Happiness by Oscar E. Fernandez
- The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- The Calculus of Friendship by Steven Strogatz
- The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson
- The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz
- Adventures of a Mathematician by S.M. Ulam
- The Humans by Matt Haig
- Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
- The Second Kind of Impossible by Paul Steinhardt
- Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz
- The Shape of a Life by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
- The Prime Number Conspiracy edited by Thomas Lin
- The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Dr. Eugenia Cheng
- How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
- HELLO WORLD: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
- When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt
- Pi of Life: The Hidden Happiness of Mathematics by Sunil Singh
- Here’s Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math by Alex Bellos
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
- Who Killed Professor X? by Thodoris Andriopoulos
- The Wild Numbers by Philibert Schogt
- Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez
- A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal
- Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature by Marcus du Sautoy
- The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
- Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
- The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- A Doubter’s Almanac by Ethan Canin
- Finding Zero by Amir Aczel
- The Mathematician’s Shiva: A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer
- Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence by Joseph Mazur
- Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
- Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So by Ian Stewart
- Pythagoras’ Revenge by Arturo Sangalli
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
- The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan
- The Silicon Jungle by Shumeet Baluja
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ozawa