Nonstandard Notebook: Mathematically Ruled Pages for Unruly Thoughts [Paperback]

A revolutionary notebook that challenges us to play outside (and with) the lines.
 
A standard notebook displays page after page of horizontal lines. But what if we break the pattern? What if the ruled pages grew unruly? In thisNonstandard Notebook, lines twist, fragment, curve, and crisscross in beautiful formations. Each sheet is a distinctive work of imagination, asking us to draw, doodle, and journal in the same spirit.
 
Page after page, as we journey from lines to parabolas to waves, deep questions arise—about form, art, and mathematics. How do we harness the infinite? Why do patterns permeate nature? What are the limitations and possibilities of human vision?Nonstandard Notebookexplores these questions and more through its provocative and inspirational images, each displayed with the mathematics that generated it. We see how straight lines can form fractal crenellations, how circles can disrupt and unify, and how waves and scaling can form complex landscapes (or even famous faces). Created by mathematicians, educators, and math popularizers Tim Chartier and Amy Langville, and with a foreword from Ben Orlin (bestselling author ofMath with Bad Drawings),Nonstandard Notebookshows that rules—both the rules of mathematics and the rules of a notebook—do not mark the end of creativity, but the beginning.Tim Chartieris the Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College. His books includeMath Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in ComputingandGet in the Game: An Interactive Introduction to Sports Analytics, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.Amy Langvilleis professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston. Her books includeGoogle’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings,Who’s #1: The Science of Rating and Ranking,and the l³o