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Category: Mathematics

6 December 2022

Big Award News!

We’re honored to share that, for the second year in a row, a book in Robert Black’s Mathematical Lives series has won a spot for the 2022 Best STEM Books list! Congratulations to Bob for his award-winning “Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies”!

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6 December 2022

How Math Changed the World

Throughout the course of human history, we have changed our relationship to numbers, and that change has affected our understanding of everything else. However, it is not math but mathematicians—individuals working at the edges of our knowledge—who have pushed us forward into the future.

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10 June 2022

Author Spotlight: Robert Black

Author Robert Black’s three historical novels were all reissued in 2022, but Mr. Black is also the author of our award-winning mathematician biography series Mathematical Lives and the mathematical fiction series Mathematical Nights. Learn a little more about this multi-talented author in our fun interview with him!

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Different Approaches to Math
25 March 2022

Different Approaches to Math for Different Kids

We believe that any lesson can be enjoyable if it’s served up in the right package. That’s why we offer so many different approaches to math. From picture books to novels to online courses, every child can find a way to fall in love with math.

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Famous Mathematicians Article
24 March 2022

10 Fascinating Facts about Famous Mathematicians

When you think about mathematicians, you might imagine that they live boring lives churning out calculations, but you’d be wrong. In this article, author Robert Black presents some strange and little-known facts from the lives of ten famous mathematicians.

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3 February 2022

Royal Fireworks Math Book Wins Award!

We’re proud to announce that Robert Black’s mathematical biography “Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World” has been selected for the 2022 Best STEM Books list! The selection is a joint project of the National Science Teaching Association and the Children’s Book Council.

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2 February 2022

6 Surprising Mathematical Back Stories

Have you ever wondered where mathematicians get their ideas? New mathematical breakthroughs can have some surprising origins. Here are six fascinating mathematical back stories.

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4 October 2021

Does math SCARE your child? Make it fun with these SPOOKY math books!

Plenty of children think of math as an absolute nightmare, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, math can be spooktacular! Before your child protests that there’s not a ghost of a chance that that’s true, check out our Mathematical Nights Math Fiction books, a phantasm…er, fangtastic…er, fantastic set of novels that make math devilishly fun.

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29 September 2021

An Interdisciplinary—and Very Human—Approach to Math

Animated movies. Computer games. Smartphone technology. All of these things have in common fractals, which Benoit Mandlebrot opened up for us. Children who learn how this man bested the odds to discover something that has altered the world as we know it today will be welcomed into the subject of math in a way that a worksheet of problems can never do.

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9 February 2021

Royal Fireworks Math Biography Wins Award!

We’re thrilled to announce that our biographical novel “David Blackwell and the Deadliest Duel” has been selected as a 2021 Mathical Honor Book! This winning title by Robert Black delves into the life and work of David Blackwell, who is regarded as a brilliant mathematician whose contributions helped to lay the foundation for fields such as information theory.

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16 May 2019

Mathematicians Are People, Too

“The stories of these mathematical pioneers show that math is done by real people who lived real lives. They didn’t start out knowing everything. They had to study and learn, making both discoveries and mistakes along the way. By following the paths they took, readers can uncover the human side of mathematics.” – Robert Black

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22 August 2016

Lewis Carroll, the Original Mathematical Novelist

“Whenever I give a presentation on my Mathematical Nights books, there’s one name that I always mention: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. You may know him better by his pen name: Lewis Carroll. As a writer, he often blended his mathematical skills with his whimsical style—sometimes in obvious ways and other times in ways that are harder to find.” – Robert Black

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13 January 2016

Why Math Fiction?

“For many people, learning math mostly involved working a seemingly endless set of exercise problems. Such drills have their place, but if that’s all students do, they’re missing a big part of what math is about. In fact, they’re missing the most important part: the opportunity to see math as a creative, collaborative experience, full of possibilities for exploration and discovery.” – Robert Black

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