Books by Paul Lockhart and Complete Book Reviews

The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill
The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
Paul Lockhart, Harper, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-195886-1
The strengths and weaknesses of the early Revolutionary War effort are illuminated in this stimulating history (the second this season, after Thomas Nelson's The Fire and the Sword) of the first engagement—and of the 1775 American siege of Boston....
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Measurement
Measurement
Paul Lockhart. Harvard Univ, $29.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-674-05755-5
In A Mathematician’s Lament, Lockhart bemoaned the state of mathematics education in America. Taking up where he left off, Lockhart presents math as an art and argues that just as there is no systematic way to create beautiful and meaningful art,...
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A Mathematician's Lament
A Mathematician's Lament
Paul Lockhart, Author, Keith Devlin, Foreword by Bellevue Literary Press $12.95 (140p) ISBN 978-1-934137-17-8
Like music or painting, says long-time math teacher (K-12 and college) Lockhart, mathematics is an art-""the art of explanation,"" ""the music of reason""-and its method of instruction in American schools has reduced a ""rich and fascinating...
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