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Math, Better Explained: Learn to Unlock Your Math Intuition [Kindle Edition]

Kalid Azad
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"Math, Better Explained" is a clear, intuitive guide to math topics essential for high school, college and beyond. Whether you're a student, parent, or teacher, this book is your key to unlocking the aha! moments that make math truly click -- and make learning enjoyable.

The book intentionally avoids mindless definitions and focuses on building a deep, natural intuition so you can integrate the ideas into your everyday thinking. Its explanations on the natural logarithm, imaginary numbers, exponents and the Pythagorean Theorem are among the most-visited in the world.

The topics in Math, Better Explained include:

1. Developing Math Intuition
2. The Pythagorean Theorem
3. Pythagorean Distance
4. Radians and Degrees
5. Imaginary Numbers
6. Complex Arithmetic
7. Exponential Functions & e
8. The Natural Logarithm (ln)
9. Interest Rates
10. Understanding Exponents
11. Euler’s Formula
12. Introduction To Calculus

The book is written as the author wishes math was taught: with a friendly attitude, vivid illustrations and a focus on true understanding. Learn right, not rote!

Selected testimonials:

"I have several books on calculus (Calculus for Dummys, Math for the Millions, etc. etc. - never was able to read them) but your explanation is what I have needed all these years." - D. Hogg, Former Principal

"This is a great explanation! I am 49 years old and have never known what e is all about. It is thanks to your article that I get it and now can explain it to my son who is 13 years old..." - C. Dhaveji

"I've been following you for nearly two years...I find the intuitive approach to the subject and lucid writing unparalleled." - D. Ezell

About the Author

Kalid Azad graduated from Princeton University and has been writing professionally for over a decade, from chapters in the best-selling "How to Program" textbooks (from Deitel, Inc.) to technical whitepapers for Microsoft, Corp. In 2006 he founded BetterExplained.com, which has grown into a popular, highly-acclaimed mathematics resource with hundreds of thousands of monthly readers. Kalid has tutored math since high school (99% percentile for SAT/GRE/GMAT) and is enamored with finding the clearest, most intuitive insights on seemingly-complicated topics.

Product Details

  • File Size: 1035 KB
  • Print Length: 137 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: BetterExplained.com; 1 edition (December 6, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B006J5L3VU
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,613 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I love the quality and teaching approach! The writing is clear, friendly and builds a deep understanding with excellent diagrams. The author takes your mind beyond rote details and makes you understand the essence of each math concept -- even experienced math fans will come away with valuable insights. For example, the metaphors about e, i and pi make it easy to understand Euler's formula, considered one of the most beautiful (and baffling) identities.

I've reviewed many books while running math-blog.com: very few are this approachable and entertaining while helping you truly learn. Highly recommended!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A lot of math concepts come from the need to solve everyday problems but unfortunately are taught in the classroom in distilled, abstract form that transcends the specific examples it was originally invented for. As such, the intuition behind the abstract concepts is sacrificed at the expense of generalization.

The author makes the very useful and widely overlooked point that the intuition behind abstract concepts or theorems can be recovered by reversing the direction from abstract to specific and explaining how one can arrive at applied/concrete instances from the pure/distilled forms.

As such the author is not only helping the reader to demystify math (making it more accessible to anyone with common sense) but paves the way for developing modeling skills where those concepts can be successfully applied to real-world problems.

This is a very worthwhile undertaking and I would personally love to see the author extend this effort to more concepts e.g. determinants, adjoint/hermitian matrices, regression and function approximation etc. This type of explanations could serve as supplementary math texts or - in the form of wiki where others could share the burden of providing their intuition - as a very valuable reference.

Only gave 4 stars for the somewhat random selection of examples to be explained but would recommend this book without any reservations.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Excellent book! December 9, 2011
I followed this series on his website and was always impressed that it focused on the concepts rather than rote memorization or acceptance of ideas blindly.

I bought it and was very happy with it. I only hope he does more of these. Possibly with programming or other field.
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