New Math: Equations for Living

By Craig Damrauer

New Math offers a unique and humorous take on life as told by old-school arithmetic equations. For instance, does a cat plus loyalty equal a dog? What's the equation for a backyard? And if you're... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740760572
• ISBN13: 9780740760570
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Hysterically Brilliant

This book is absolutely brilliant. Damrauer's clever math will make you pee your pants laughing. I've memorized most of the "equations" and blurt them out at parties. If you want irony, insight, and biting humor, get this book.

like candy-coated vitamins

Just saw one of the equations from this book featured in the NY Times, and it reminded me to pick it off my bookshelf again. I loved it as much as I did when I first read it - it's funny and smart, a wonderful way of looking at things. I highly recommend you get a copy, and don't do what I did and let it gather dust on a shelf - read it, enjoy it, and share it with someone else. OK, maybe get two, so you can keep one and still share.

Well worth it.

Three words to make a point? Damn, some real gangster poetry. The equations that aren't funny are insightful and funny ones are really funny. This book proves you don't need much more than wit. And the colors are pleasant to look at too.

Great, unique brand of humor...

Craig Damrauer has created something very unique here, by using math equations to represent real life in an oft-times hilarious way. I can just see this kind of thing becoming a real fad. Be sure to check out this book!

Math Humor at it finest!!

Great Blending of math and language vocabulary!! Mathematical definitions of everyday language. Know a "math person"... BUY THEM THIS BOOK!!