Math Awakening: Learn to Think Clearer

Logic is an indispensable tool for human beings to understand the world. It supports mathematics and science and is one of the foundations of every major knowledge advancement of mankind since ancient times. Over the past 2000 years, logical reasoning seems to have developed quite maturely, and mathematics is also bright. But paradoxes, infinities, and inexplicable real-life problems always challenge mathematics. This book will provide insights into the ideological nature of mathematics through stories of mathematics, proofs and logic, and explore the key factors for humans to learn and understand mathematics. In the final analysis, logical reasoning is not a rigid tool, but mathematics is a great creation based on human beings' own intuition and beliefs about the world. This book has neither complex proofs, formulas, nor daunting mathematical terms. The author uses travel and adventure stories, campus life, scientific celebrities and historical stories, conversations with children, etc. To relate real-world experience to mathematics, and the reality of the physical world to abstraction and logic. Mathematics is like a lush rain forest. When we walk in it, we feel not only great wisdom, profound thoughts and rigorous arguments, but also the joy of thinking. This book is suitable for general readers.