The Mathematics Calendar 2018
ORIGINAL. AUTHENTIC. The one and only The Mathematics Calendar continually reminds us how mathematics describes nature, impacts the sciences, influences the arts, is inseparable from music, stimulates and creates new technologies, and reveals the dimensions of our universe through its ever-evolving ideas and insights.
Thirty-seven years after its inception, The Mathematics Calendar continues to awe its audience with its cutting edge math topics, its all new exciting graphics, and its mind-boggling problems. The 2018 edition includes 12 new fascinating math topics illustrating the incredible influence of mathematics on our lives.
Each day of every month has a problem, whose solution is the date. The challenge lies in figuring how to arrive at the answer, and possibly discovering more than one method of solving the date's problem.
Each month's text, photos, and graphics have a wealth of information and are even sprinkled with a bit of humor. The 12 topics feature exciting, historic, and current math ideas and topics.
Wherever it is seen, it’s a conversation item because it is more than a calendar — it has tantalizing problems on each day and a treasure trove of information, games, puzzles, and stories. The Mathematics Calendar has given hundreds of thousands of people a new perspective about math.
Theoni Pappas is passionate about mathematics. A native Californian, Pappas received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 and her M.A. from Stanford University in 1967. She taught high school and college mathematics for nearly two decades, then turned to writing a remarkable series of innovative books which reflect her commitment to demystifying mathematics and making the subject more approachable. Through her pithy, nonthreatening and easily comprehensible style, she breaks down mathematical prejudices and barriers to help one realize that mathematics is a dynamic world of fascinating ideas that can be easily accessible to the layperson.
Her math calendars and over 18 math books appeal to both young and adult audiences alike. Three of her books have been Book-of-the Month Club selections, and her Joy of Mathematics was selected as a Pick of the Paperbacks. Her books have been translated into Japanese, Finnish, French, Slovakian, Czech, Korean, Turkish, Russian, Thai, simplified and traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
In 2000 Pappas received the Excellence in Achievement Award from the University of California Alumni Association for her work on books and other innovative products that deal with mathematics. She lives in Palo Alto, CA.
