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A single book where mathematical contents are mixed with artistic photos and illustrations, for readers who love hand made projects, those who love mathematics and those who just love beautiful books.
Create, learn, watch: the triple pleasure of learning geometry while folding an origami, studying topology while creating wire bracelets, understanding symmetry while putting together a hand made kaleidoscope, discovering the algebra behind a party decoration set.
In each different project, mathematics becomes beauty: a 3D gift card, a game to play with, a witty piece of jewelry. Beside the instructions, made easier to follow by the simple illustrations, there is what it makes these objects so interesting from a mathematical point of view: all kinds of historical anecdotes, cultural details and artistic oddities.
The artistic photos and the drawings both illustrate the projects and make the pages look beautiful, making this book a lovely object itself: a practical guide to hand made mathematics for students and their teachers, as well as children and their parents. The perfect gift for readers of any age.

Miscellaneous Contents and their mathematical meaning
Party decorations – Glasses (Rotations). Straws (Triangles and counterstays). Streamers (Maths and biology: DNA). Toothpicks (Euler formula).
In & Out – Kaleidocycle (Tetrahedron). Moebius ring (Surfaces that can’t be oriented). Infinite ladder (Optical illusion). Paper sheet with 4 faces (How so?).
Bracelets – Braids with 3, 4, 5 wires (Notation). Friendship bracelets (Patterns, Chirality). Magical braid (Real knots vs. fake knots).
Drawing – Kolam (Divisibility). Stars (Modularity). Dog curve (Chasing curves). Flowers and circles (Use of compasses).
One, many, infinite! – Kaleidoscope (Symmetries, tessellation). Unpredictable floor (Aperiodic tessellations). One module, 1000 results (Modules and regular tessellations). All different, all friends (Squared tiles).
Paper – Pop up (Fractals). Little tiny cube (Colouring problem). Polyhedra! (Regular polyhedra).
Round stuff – Circles become solid (Inscribed polygons). Cardboard ball (Sections of a sphere and other solids). Folded book (Solids of rotation). Paper ball (4 dimensions).
Cubical stuff – Calendar (How to fill numbers in). Magical cube (Side/Surface/Volume). 48 pyramids cube (Irrational numbers, Pythagoras).
Games – Tangram (Fractions). Sum cube (Symmetries, permutations). Bilias pyramid (Triangular, pyramidal numbers). Pentominoes (Polyominos maths).

After studying mathematics at the university, Robert Ghattas attended the School in Science Communication at Sissa, Trieste. For years his job has been telling mathematics in books, magazines, conferences. His mathematical animations were awarded the European Award Wonders in 2007, for the best scientific animation. He lectures all over Italy for audiences of teachers and science animators and explainers who work for festivals or museums. He is the author of Maths à la carte 1 (Sironi, 2004) and Tutti i numeri sono uguali a cinque (Springer), besides many short stories, articles and essays published in books and on the web.