Popular mathematics is mathematical presentation aimed at a general audience. Sometimes this is in the form of books which require no mathematical background...
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Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences...
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2-dimensional topological spaces, and is sometimes referenced in popular mathematics.) There is also a related notion of the cohomology of a cochain complex...
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literary genre Popular history – Genre of historiography Popular Mechanics – American science magazine Popular mathematics – Mathematics for a general...
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Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel is a popular mathematics book on Jorge Luis Borges and mathematics. It describes several mathematical concepts...
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Recreational mathematics is mathematics carried out for recreation (entertainment) rather than as a strictly research-and-application-based professional...
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complex dynamical systems. She is known for her appearances in the popular mathematics YouTube video series Numberphile. Originally from Champaign, Illinois...
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Number: The Language of Science (category Popular mathematics books)
Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician is a popular mathematics book by Tobias Dantzig. The original U.S. publication was by Macmillan...
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Mathematics and the Imagination is a book published in New York by Simon & Schuster in 1940. The authors are Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. The illustrator...
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Numberphile (category Popular mathematics)
channel featuring videos that explore topics from a variety of fields of mathematics. In the early days of the channel, each video focused on a specific number...
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Love Triangle (book) (category Popular mathematics books)
combining his career as a stand-up comedian and his background as a mathematics teacher. He is from Australia, but now lives and performs in the United...
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The Mathematics of Life is a 2011 popular science book by mathematician Ian Stewart, on the increasing role of mathematics in biology. Stewart discusses...
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Lumen Naturae (category Popular mathematics books)
of the Abstract in Art and Mathematics is a book on connections between contemporary art, on the one hand, and mathematics and theoretical physics, on...
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Vladimir Arnold (category Wolf Prize in Mathematics laureates)
of Classical Mechanics and Ordinary Differential Equations) and popular mathematics books, he influenced many mathematicians and physicists. Many of...
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Marcus du Sautoy (category Mathematics popularizers)
University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popular science books. He was previously[when?] a fellow of All Souls...
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From Zero to Infinity (category Popular mathematics books)
From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting is a book in popular mathematics and number theory by Constance Reid. It was originally published...
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discussions of mathematical topics, anecdotes and history". Topics covered include Fermat's Last Theorem, which Singh has written a popular book about, and...
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How to Bake Pi (redirect from How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics)
How to Bake Pi is a popular mathematics book by Eugenia Cheng published in 2015. Each chapter of the book begins with a recipe for a dessert, to illustrate...
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achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education,: xii the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach...
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Beyond Infinity : An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics is a popular mathematics book by Eugenia Cheng centered on concepts of infinity. It...
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The Schoolmaster's Assistant, Being a Compendium of Arithmetic Both Practical and Theoretical (category Mathematics textbooks)
1786 it had reached 23 editions, and through 1800 it was the most popular mathematics text in America. Although different editions of the book varied in...
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Timothy Gowers (category Mathematics popularizers)
Scholar, where he was taught mathematics by Norman Routledge. In 1981, Gowers won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad with a perfect score...
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March 1921 – 17 April 1988) was a Soviet mathematician and author of popular mathematics books, some with his twin Akiva Yaglom. Yaglom received a Ph.D. from...
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Zenzizenzizenzic (category History of mathematics)
Recorde, a 16th-century Welsh physician, mathematician and writer of popular mathematics textbooks, in his 1557 work The Whetstone of Witte (although his...
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Plus Magazine (category Popular mathematics)
Plus Magazine is an online popular mathematics magazine run under the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge. Plus contains: feature...
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Imagining Numbers (category Mathematics books)
Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is a 2003 popular mathematics book by mathematician Barry Mazur. The aim of the book is not a history...
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Fermat's Last Theorem (book) (redirect from Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem)
publication of Andrew Wiles' proof of the Theorem. The book is the first mathematics book to become a Number One seller in the United Kingdom, whilst Singh's...
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The Code Book (category Popular mathematics books)
Cryptography, reviewed by Jim Reeds", Jim Reeds, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 47, no. 3, March 2000, pp. 369–372. Retrieved 2009-02-19...
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Martin Gardner (category Mathematics popularizers)
Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific...
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The Fourth Dimension (book) (category Mathematics books)
(1984) is a popular mathematics book by Rudy Rucker, a Silicon Valley professor of mathematics and computer science. It provides a popular presentation...
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