\u201cTriangles are everything,\u201d Parker writes in the introduction, \u201cand everything is triangles.\u201d The following 10 chapters bear titles like \u201cGoing the Distance,\u201d \u201cGetting Triggy With It,\u201d and \u201cMaking Waves.\u201d Within his exploratory and everyday applications of triangles, the author describes rounding corners on a racetrack (\u201cthe bike did lean just over 45\u00b0 from vertical. Which means I can officially name my new motorbike gang Hell\u2019s Angles\u201d), playing pool (\u201cit\u2019s hard to find a more common or more practical use of angles and geometry\u201d), and looking at rainbows, which, he explains, are not arches but circles. Parker delineates myriad laws and patterns, and history as well as recent news. One example of the latter is the March 2023 discovery of the first aperiodic monotile, dubbed \u201cthe Hat.\u201d \u201cGiven this shape had been eluding the entire mathematics community for over half a century,\u201d Parker writes, \u201cnobody expected it to be so straightforward.\u201d The author has a gift for making somewhat tedious topics not only comprehensible and absorbing, but also great fun. As one example, he refers to Pythagoras (\u201cthe granddaddy of triangle maths\u201d) as \u201cthe Beyonc\u00e9 of maths\u201d because \u201cwho cares about his last name.\u201d Parker\u2019s tireless enthusiasm, light touch, and inviting manner make for a reading experience akin to a visit to Epcot Center, led by a guide in possession of childlike wonder in addition to adult acumen and humor. The author never gets mired in the weeds, even as he manages to cover a tremendous amount of detailed information, aided by illustrations that feature appealing captions running the gamut from simple to complex.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cTriangles are everything,\u201d Parker writes in the introduction, \u201cand everything is triangles.\u201d The following 10 chapters bear titles like \u201cGoing the Distance,\u201d \u201cGetting Triggy With It,\u201d and \u201cMaking Waves.\u201d Within his exploratory and everyday applications of triangles, the author describes rounding corners on a racetrack (\u201cthe bike did lean just over 45\u00b0 from vertical. Which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}