Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind

Chalkdust

14 April 2022

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Kyle D Evans is a teacher and maths-based entertainer. Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind (Amazon UK, Waterstones) is his book all about viral maths problems.

Style

Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind looks at a wide range of problems and puzzles that have gone viral on social media. As anyone who’s seen one of Kyle’s shows would expect, it’s both understandable and amusing.

Control

This book offers very clear explanations of the maths involved, but first discusses each problem and gives the user time to digest the problem and thing about it themselves first.

Damage

As viral maths problems—and things going viral at all—are (mostly, see chapter 2) relatively recent phenomena, this book avoids treading the same old ground that other maths books are written about. Although (due to their viral nature) I had seen many of the problems before, I hadn’t spent that much time thinking about all of them, so there was plent that Kyle could still tell me about them. It was very refreshing to read a book about maths that I’ve not read about in many other books.

Aggression

I would very strongly recommend this one to mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike.

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