Beautiful mathematics can be found in unlikely places. Building upon this premise, Power-up tries to address a marketing problem: Why is mathematics far from engaging for most people? Mathematics is not as engaging as, for instance, playing video games. However, video games offer plenty of interesting examples for motivating mathematical thinking. Matthew Lane collects some of them in his book, which is written to be accessible to a general audience and leaves some interesting technical details as a handful of endnotes.
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