The Magic of Maths is the maths book you wish you had in school Using a delightful assortment of examplesfrom ice cream scoops & poker hands to measuring mountains & making magic squaresthis book empowers you to see the beauty simplicity & truly magical properties behind those formulas & equations that once left your head spinning You'll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic algebra geometry trigonometry & calculus but you'll also have fun fooling around with Fibonacci numbers investigating infinity & marveling over mathematical magic tricks that will make you look like a maths genius!A mathematician who is known throughout the world as the mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin mixes mathematics & magic to make the subject fun attractive & easy to understand In The Magic of Maths Benjamin does more than just teach skills with a tip of his magic hat he takes you on as his apprentice to teach you how to appreciate maths the way he does He motivates you to learn something new about how to solve for x because there is real pleasure to be found in the solution to a challenging problem or in using numbers to do something useful But what he really wants you to do is be able to figure out why for that's where you'll find the real beauty power & magic of maths If you are already someone who likes maths this book will dazzle & amuse you If you never particularly liked or understood maths Benjamin will enlighten you andwith a wave of his magic wandturn you into a maths lover