From time to time, I return to The Magic of Math, and there’s still lots of stuff inside the book that I don’t fully understand. Growing up, I never cared much for math. I found it impossible to sit through, and it was never a subject that caught my interest: I was always a literature-centric kid. In fact, I even remember feeling extremely relieved when I no longer had to take math classes in college after completing the obligatory introductory math course in my first year. Years have passed with zero math in my surroundings and career paths, until, ironically, crypto and Web3 gobsmacked me. That's when I realized that it was time to acknowledge the limitations in my thinking and embrace mathematics to understand the newly-found world around me in all its glory.

The Magic of Math is an extremely simple book for anyone who knows math well enough, and revelatory for other people who were afraid of calculus their whole life (like myself). In time, I found that the most obvious comparison regarding Benjamin's book can be made with art books rather than other literature on math. Like a true master of his craft, Benjamin is not trying to brute force all known equations into your brain for the sake of it, but rather to express the whole mathematical pallet so you can see the beauty behind xs and ys, and find your own way to then eventually "get it all". The idea is that even if you find math difficult to understand, that doesn't mean it's impossible to appreciate its beautiful structure and complexity. The Magic of Math invites you to embrace math as a critical component of understanding the simplest things in the world around us. Whether it is calculating a tip on a bill or understanding the algorithms that power social media, zkRollups, or LLMs, math is everywhere, and it is - yeah - quite magical in its elegance (I fell totally in love with a chapter on the Fibonacci sequence).

I guess at one point or another, any human must realize that mathematics is not just a subject which we learn in school and then leave behind. Embracing the beauty of math and its practical applications in our daily lives helps you - especially in times of turbulence - ground yourself and think outside the box of your senses. Whether you are an artist, producer, writer, or Twitter warrior, mathematics is something that we can all appreciate and understand in one way or another - or just simply enjoy the fact that there’s at least one certain way how we can explain almost everything in the world. It’s worth taking the time to appreciate the beauty of the universe around you by exploring the language of math. Start with The Magic of Math if you're like me.

From time to time, I return to The Magic of Math, and there’s still lots of stuff inside the book that I don’t fully understand. Growing up, I never cared much for math. I found it impossible to sit through, and it was never a subject that caught my interest: I was always a literature-centric kid. In fact, I even remember feeling extremely relieved when I no longer had to take math classes in college after completing the obligatory introductory math course in my first year. Years have passed with zero math in my surroundings and career paths, until, ironically, crypto and Web3 gobsmacked me. That's when I realized that it was time to acknowledge the limitations in my thinking and embrace mathematics to understand the newly-found world around me in all its glory.

The Magic of Math is an extremely simple book for anyone who knows math well enough, and revelatory for other people who were afraid of calculus their whole life (like myself). In time, I found that the most obvious comparison regarding Benjamin's book can be made with art books rather than other literature on math. Like a true master of his craft, Benjamin is not trying to brute force all known equations into your brain for the sake of it, but rather to express the whole mathematical pallet so you can see the beauty behind xs and ys, and find your own way to then eventually "get it all". The idea is that even if you find math difficult to understand, that doesn't mean it's impossible to appreciate its beautiful structure and complexity. The Magic of Math invites you to embrace math as a critical component of understanding the simplest things in the world around us. Whether it is calculating a tip on a bill or understanding the algorithms that power social media, zkRollups, or LLMs, math is everywhere, and it is - yeah - quite magical in its elegance (I fell totally in love with a chapter on the Fibonacci sequence).

I guess at one point or another, any human must realize that mathematics is not just a subject which we learn in school and then leave behind. Embracing the beauty of math and its practical applications in our daily lives helps you - especially in times of turbulence - ground yourself and think outside the box of your senses. Whether you are an artist, producer, writer, or Twitter warrior, mathematics is something that we can all appreciate and understand in one way or another - or just simply enjoy the fact that there’s at least one certain way how we can explain almost everything in the world. It’s worth taking the time to appreciate the beauty of the universe around you by exploring the language of math. Start with The Magic of Math if you're like me.