The Science of Obscure Mathematics: A Comedy About the Numbers Nobody Invited (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798275921885)

We Admit We Don't Know What's Going On

Mathematics is humanity's proudest achievement, which is impressive considering most humans stopped liking it in the fourth grade. This book is not about the helpful, everyday math of tax returns, tip calculations, and the precise geometry needed to fit your car into a parking space. No - this is the math that hides.

These are the forgotten fractals, the uncelebrated theorems, the rogue conjectures haunting old blackboards like chalk ghosts. This is the math you don't tell children about until they're old enough to ask dangerous questions like, "But why do we need imaginary numbers?" or worse, "Can math have feelings?"

This book is for the brave. This book is for the curious. This book is for the person who once tried to understand the Collatz Conjecture at 3 a.m. and ended up eating cereal over the sink, staring into the void.

Prepare to meet the sides of mathematics you never knew existed. Some are silly. Some are sublime. Some are so obscure they're basically cryptids. All of them are real... mostly.

Welcome to the back alleys of mathematics. Bring a pencil. And maybe a flashlight.