It’s a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere

2021 Mathical Honor Book Why aren’t left-handers extinct?

What makes a rainbow round?

How is a pancreas … like a pendulum?

Publisher’s note: It’s a Numberful World was published in Australia under the title Woo’s Wonderful World of Maths.

These may not look like math questions, but they are–because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns.

That realization changed Eddie Woo’s life–by turning the dry subject he dreaded in high school into a boundless quest for discovery. Now an award-winning math teacher, Woo sees patterns everywhere: in the branches of blood vessels and lightning, in the growth of a savings account and a sunflower, even in his morning cup of tea!

Here are twenty-six bite-size chapters on the hidden mathematical marvels that encrypt our email, enchant our senses, and even keep us alive–from the sine waves we hear as music to the mysterious golden ratio.

This book will change your mind about what math can be. We are all born mathematicians–and It’s a Numberful World.