How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life offers readers guidance in managing the fear, freedom, frustration, and joy that often accompany calls to think mathematically. With practical insight and years of award-winning mathematics teaching experience, D'Agostino offers more than 300 hand-drawn sketches alongside accessible descriptions of fractals, symmetry, fuzzy logic, knot theory, Penrose patterns, infinity, the Twin Prime Conjecture, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem, and other intriguing mathematical topics.
Readers are encouraged to embrace change, proceed at their own pace, mix up their routines, resist comparison, have faith, fail more often, look for beauty, exercise their imaginations, and define success for themselves.
Mathematics students and enthusiasts will learn advice for fostering courage on their journey regardless of age or mathematical background.
How to Free Your Inner Mathematician delivers not only engaging mathematical content but provides reassurance that mathematical success has more to do with curiosity and drive than innate aptitude.
《如何釋放你內心的數學家：數學與生活的筆記》為讀者提供了管理數學思考所帶來的恐懼、自由、挫折和喜悅的指導。D'Agostino 擁有多年獲獎的數學教學經驗，並提供了超過 300 幅手繪草圖，搭配對分形、對稱、模糊邏輯、結理論、Penrose 圖案、無限、雙質數猜想、阿羅的不可能定理、費馬最後定理及其他引人入勝的數學主題的易懂描述。
讀者被鼓勵擁抱變化，按照自己的步調前進，打破常規，抵抗比較，保持信心，經常失敗，尋找美感，發揮想像力，並為自己定義成功。
數學學生和愛好者將學到無論年齡或數學背景如何，都能在他們的旅程中培養勇氣的建議。《如何釋放你內心的數學家》不僅提供引人入勝的數學內容，還提供了保證，數學成功與好奇心和驅動力的關係遠大於天生的才能。
Susan D'Agostino,
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Susan D'Agostino is a mathematician and writer whose essays have been published in
Quanta Magazine, Scientific American, Financial Times, Nature, Undark, Times Higher Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, Math Horizons, Mathematics Teacher, and others. She earned her PhD in Mathematics from Dartmouth College, Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics from Smith College, and BA in Anthropology from Bard College. She is a Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Her website is www.susandagostino.com and her Twitter handle is @susan_dagostino.
蘇珊·達戈斯蒂諾（Susan D'Agostino），科學寫作促進委員會（Council for the Advancement of Science Writing）；約翰霍普金斯大學（Johns Hopkins University）泰勒/布雷克斯利（Taylor/Blakeslee）研究員
蘇珊·達戈斯蒂諾是一位數學家和作家，她的文章曾發表於Quanta Magazine、Scientific American、Financial Times、Nature、Undark、Times Higher Education、Chronicle of Higher Education、Math Horizons、Mathematics Teacher等期刊。她在達特茅斯學院（Dartmouth College）獲得數學博士學位，在史密斯學院（Smith College）獲得數學教育碩士學位，並在巴德學院（Bard College）獲得人類學學士學位。她是約翰霍普金斯大學的科學寫作促進委員會泰勒/布雷克斯利研究員。她的網站是 www.susandagostino.com，推特帳號是 @susan_dagostino。
