Pappas Theoni. The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around You

Wide World Publishing/Tetra. San Carlos, CA, USA. 1993. 256 pages. Includes index. ISBN: 0933174659, 0946544328To experience the joy of mathematics is to realize that mathematics is not some isolated subject that has little relationship to the things around us other than to frustrate us with unbalanced checkbooks and complicated computations. Many of the phenomena around us can be described by mathematics. Mathematical concepts are even inherent in the structure of living cells.The joy of mathematics is similar to the experience of discovering something for the first time. It is an almost child-like feeling of wonder. Once you have experienced it you will not forget that feeling - it can be as exciting as looking into a microscope for the first time and seeing things that have always been around you that you have been unable to see before.