DIVA look at how a British war hero used math to woo and win the girlbr/divDIVIn 1922 Barnes Wallis FRS, who later invented the transatlantic airship and the bouncing bomb immortalized in the movie The Dam Busters, fell in love for the first and last time – aged 35. The object of his affection, Molly Bloxam, was 17 and setting off to study science at University College London. Her father decreed that the two could correspond only if Barnes taught Molly mathematics in his letters.brbrMathematics with Love presents, for the first time, the result of this curious diktat: a series of witty, tender and totally accessible introductions to calculus, trigonometry and electrostatic induction that remarkably, wooed and won the girl. Deftly narrated by Barnes and Molly’s daughter Mary, Mathematics with Love is an evocative tale of a twenties courtship, a surprising insight into the early life of an engineering genius – and a great way to learn a little mathematics.br/divDIVP class=MsoNormalSome may open this book, see pages of formulae and decide to go no further. This would be a great pity – skipping over the mathematics does not detract from the enjoyment of the main story. This is a fitting tribute to a man to whom the world owes a great deal. –Sir Patrick Moore,ITimes Higher Educational Supplement/I/PIn place of poetry and roses, engineer Barnes Wallis wooed his lady-love with trigonometry and calculus – and won her heart. A charming and unique correspondence from the human side of mathematics. –Ian Stewart, author ofIMath Hysteria/IandIFlatterland/IBRBRWhat a lovely book, reminiscent of Nevile Shute’s novels. This mixture of maths and suppressed emotion is warm, touching, and rather improbable. Here we meet neither the lovable bumbling genius of Paul Brickhill’s book The Dam Busters and Michael Redgrave’s portrayal in the film, nor the stubborn and difficult man that Wallis could be at the drawing board, but a third man, a shy,@BõÂ?) ¾Û€