Ron Aharoni
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Ron Aharoni (
Aharoni is the author of several nonspecialist books; the most successful is Arithmetic for Parents, a book helping parents and elementary school teachers in teaching basic mathematics. He also wrote a book on the connections between Mathematics, poetry and beauty and on philosophy, The Cat That is not There. His book, "Man detaches meaning", is on a mechanism common to jokes and poetry. His last to date book is Circularity: A Common Secret to Paradoxes, Scientific Revolutions and Humor,[1] which binds together mathematics, philosophy and the secrets of humor.
Books
1. Arithmetic for Parents, A book for grownups on children's mathematics, Schocken Press 2004
2. Mathematics, poetry and beauty (in Hebrew), Hakibutz Hameuchad 2008.
3. The cat that is not there - a non-philosophical book on philosophy, Magness Press (The Hebrew University Publishing House), 2009.
4. Man detaches meaning - poems, jokes and in between, Hakibutz Hameuchad 2011.
5. Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty (in English), World Scientific Publishing 2014.
6. Arithmetic for Parents (Revised Edition), World Scientific Publishing 2015
7. Circularity: A Common Secret to Paradoxes, Scientific Revolutions and Humor, World Scientific Publishing 2016.
References
- ISBN 978-981-4723-67-1.
External links
- Ron Aharoni's home page on Elementary school mathematics
- Vicious circles -- confusing, instructive, amusing?
- Ron Aharoni: What I learnt in elementary school, Address at the British Mathematical Colloquium, Birmingham, 2003
- Ron Aharoni: The Cat That is Not There, Magnes Press, December 2009.
- Ron Aharoni: The cat that is not there, a summary [1]
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