Math in Drag

Kyne Santos is a math educator, science communicator, social media influencer, and drag queen.

Preface

Chapter 1. Infinite Possibilities

Chapter 2. Celebrity Numbers

Chapter 3. How to Cut a Cake and Eat It Too

Chapter 4. Luck Be a Ladyboy

Chapter 5. The Average Queen

Chapter 6. Growing Pains

Chapter 7. Illegal Math

Chapter 8. Queer Geometry

Chapter 9. Mathematical Realness

Chapter 10. Curtain Call

Acknowledgments

The "Quintessentially Kyne" Playlist

Appendix

Notes

Index

This is a dazzling, joyful, and hard-hitting account of how math—and humans—cannot be confined to rigid boxes no matter how much some people try to box them in. Kynes irrepressible spirit shines through bravely and fabulously.

— Eugenia Cheng, author of Is Math Real? and How to Bake Pi

With a fabulous wig in one hand and a trusty piece of chalk in the other, Kyne fearlessly guides us through a dazzling odyssey of math and drag. Prepare yourself for a mathematical eleganza extravaganza thats as enlightening as it is entertaining.

— Anthony Bonato, Toronto Metropolitan University

In this courageous and revolutionary masterpiece, Kyne effortlessly blends the whimsy and wonder of mathematics with the glitz and glamour of drag, revealing math to be a field as creative, complex, and constantly evolving as the diverse humans who engage with it!

— Vanessa Vakharia, The Math Guru

Part memoir and part math, this delightful book shows some beautiful math and math history in their best drag. I couldnt put it down!

— Mike Hill, University of California, Los Angeles, and cofounder of Spectra: The Association for LGBTQ+ Mathematicians

Math in Drag is an absolute delight! Kyne Santos helps readers understand math in a whole new way. Engaging, fabulous, empowering, and informative, its like spending quality time with your favorite drag queen!

— Christine Bollow, Loyalty Bookstores and Bookstagrammer

Kyne is a brilliant queen, exploring problems no other drag queen dares to solve! This book wont leave readers puzzled; it makes math feel as easy as pi!

— Kim Chi, RuPauls Drag Race finalist and founder of KimChi Chic Beauty

I absolutely hate math, but Kyne made me fall in love with it?! Math is no longer a toxic lover in my life, especially when she uses K-POP anecdotes to make me understand it. Im obsessed.

— Priyanka, winner, Canadas Drag Race

Math in Drag flows between advanced math concepts, math history, queer history, and Kynes personal herstory as seamlessly as a mobius strip. Kyne challenges the reader to rethink everything from what numbers are to ones own psychological biases, to see the world with an open mind, and to challenge the status quo.

— Danny Hieber, linguist and science communicator, Linguistic Discovery