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funny
informative
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medium-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia
adventurous
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challenging
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funny
informative
lighthearted
funny
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inspiring
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia
Minor: Bullying, Racism, Antisemitism
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lighthearted
This book is an absolute delight!
Kyne does a fantastic job making topics in math accessible through drag. She uses drag queens and wigs to talk about infinity, the gender spectrum to discuss imaginary numbers/complex plane, drag race and also splitting cake for game theory, drag race to introduce probability & statistics, population growth and viral growth to talk exponentials, and dress making to describe non-Euclidean geometry.
I was so excited about the game theory chapter because game theory is one of those topics that folks always refer to but I thought I didn’t know much about it. Turns out, something as simple as splitting a brownie with your sister (she cuts, I pick first) is game theory! I didn’t know that!
Kyne also weaves in lots of queer history from Turing’s contributions to WWII and his terrible treatment by the British government to some of the origins of drag in the Black ballroom scene… it was so interesting!
I also appreciated that Kyne weaved in some of her own personal history.
10/10 highly recommend
Kyne does a fantastic job making topics in math accessible through drag. She uses drag queens and wigs to talk about infinity, the gender spectrum to discuss imaginary numbers/complex plane, drag race and also splitting cake for game theory, drag race to introduce probability & statistics, population growth and viral growth to talk exponentials, and dress making to describe non-Euclidean geometry.
I was so excited about the game theory chapter because game theory is one of those topics that folks always refer to but I thought I didn’t know much about it. Turns out, something as simple as splitting a brownie with your sister (she cuts, I pick first) is game theory! I didn’t know that!
Kyne also weaves in lots of queer history from Turing’s contributions to WWII and his terrible treatment by the British government to some of the origins of drag in the Black ballroom scene… it was so interesting!
I also appreciated that Kyne weaved in some of her own personal history.
10/10 highly recommend
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Unfortunately, the digital version of this book has some translation errors - some of the math symbols don't translate to a kindle. But the information in this book is awesome and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the math history with drag queens as examples.
funny
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
Incredible.
Kyne talks about math so elegantly. She does a wonderful job at explaining both the history and application of different math topics
I also love how she wove queer and drag history throughout her math narrative. The two blended seemlessly.
Kyne talks about math so elegantly. She does a wonderful job at explaining both the history and application of different math topics
I also love how she wove queer and drag history throughout her math narrative. The two blended seemlessly.