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Love Triangle (book)
Love Triangle: The Life-Changing Magic of Trigonometry is a 2024 non-fiction book by Matt Parker. It examines how applications of trigonometry have been foundational throughout history, including in contemporary times.
The book was published by Riverhead Books.
In Love Triangle, Matt Parker encourages readers to appreciate the geometry of triangles because it is the foundation of our modern world. It offers "practical applications of triangles" in an interesting and humorous narration.
The book is divided into ten chapters, titled:
An interesting feature of the book is the page numbering system. The introduction begins on page 0.0000000, which is followed by page 0.017452. The decimal numbering continues increasing until 1.0000000 and then decreases to -1.0000000 before increasing back to 0.0000000. The page numbers represent the values of the sine function. Parker initially wanted to make the book exactly 360 pages long (equal to the number of degrees in a circle); however, the publisher would not agree to that.
Matt Parker's initial impetus for writing a book about trigonometry came from his perception that it is "the most advanced math that most people were forced to learn at some point and so it's become this kind of mascot for math is hard and pointless and awful." He initially proposed a book for the general public about trigonometry approximately ten years prior to the publication of Love Triangle. At that time, his publisher Penguin Random House were not convinced of the merits of Parker's idea.
When many years later, such a book still had not been published by anyone, Parker was unsure if that market gap needed to be filled or that "it was a terrible idea and that's why no one had done it." When he began writing Love Triangle, he had a general outline in mind, but worried that he would not have enough chapters or sufficient material for some of the chapters. His concern was unfounded, however, and he ended up having to cut out sections because his research had uncovered "so many amazing stories about geometry and trigonometry."
Love Triangle debuted on The New York Times Best Sellers list in the category of Hardcover Nonfiction at #14 in the week of September 8, 2024.
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Love Triangle (book)
Love Triangle: The Life-Changing Magic of Trigonometry is a 2024 non-fiction book by Matt Parker. It examines how applications of trigonometry have been foundational throughout history, including in contemporary times.
The book was published by Riverhead Books.
In Love Triangle, Matt Parker encourages readers to appreciate the geometry of triangles because it is the foundation of our modern world. It offers "practical applications of triangles" in an interesting and humorous narration.
The book is divided into ten chapters, titled:
An interesting feature of the book is the page numbering system. The introduction begins on page 0.0000000, which is followed by page 0.017452. The decimal numbering continues increasing until 1.0000000 and then decreases to -1.0000000 before increasing back to 0.0000000. The page numbers represent the values of the sine function. Parker initially wanted to make the book exactly 360 pages long (equal to the number of degrees in a circle); however, the publisher would not agree to that.
Matt Parker's initial impetus for writing a book about trigonometry came from his perception that it is "the most advanced math that most people were forced to learn at some point and so it's become this kind of mascot for math is hard and pointless and awful." He initially proposed a book for the general public about trigonometry approximately ten years prior to the publication of Love Triangle. At that time, his publisher Penguin Random House were not convinced of the merits of Parker's idea.
When many years later, such a book still had not been published by anyone, Parker was unsure if that market gap needed to be filled or that "it was a terrible idea and that's why no one had done it." When he began writing Love Triangle, he had a general outline in mind, but worried that he would not have enough chapters or sufficient material for some of the chapters. His concern was unfounded, however, and he ended up having to cut out sections because his research had uncovered "so many amazing stories about geometry and trigonometry."
Love Triangle debuted on The New York Times Best Sellers list in the category of Hardcover Nonfiction at #14 in the week of September 8, 2024.