Mathematics Books

Escape from Model Land
by Erica Thompson
Review
Shape
by Jordan Ellenberg
Review
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe
by Brian Clegg
Review
The Disc Embedding Theorem
by Stefan Behrens, Boldizsar Kalmar, Min Hoon Kim, Mark Powell and Arunima Ray
Review
The Great Indian Mathematicians
by Gaurav Tekriwal
Review
What’s the Use?
by Ian Stewart
Review
Reimagining Time
by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub
Review
Journey to the Edge of Reason
by Stephen Budiansky
Review
Music, Math, and Mind
by David Sulzer
Review
The God Equation
by Michio Kaku
Review
Hawking Hawking
by Charles Seife
Review
The Data Detective
by Tim Harford
Review
Life After Gravity
by Patricia Fara
Review
Fractals: On the Edge of Chaos
by Oliver Linton
Review
Prime Suspects
by Andrew Granville, Jennifer Granville, and Robert J. Lewis
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Multiplex and Multilevel Networks
by Antonios Garas, Guido Caldarelli, Stefano Battiston
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Computer Age Statistical Inference
by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie
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Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way
by Will Kurt
Review
Introduction to Computer Holography
by Kyoji Matsushima
Review
The Number Bias: How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us
by Sanne Blauw
Review
Quantum Mechanics for Beginners
by M. Suhail Zubairy
Review
Mage Merlin’s Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
by Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey
Review
The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
by Amirouche Moktefi, Robin Wilson
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Fractional Diffusion Equations and Anomalous Diffusion
by Ervin Kaminski Lenzi, Luiz Roberto Evangelista
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Women in Mathematics
by Janet L. Beery, Sarah J. Greenwald, Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin, and Maura B. Mast
Review
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
Review
Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain
by Craig Barton
Review
A Compendium of Mathematical Methods
by Jo Morgan
Review
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019
by Mircea Pitici
Review
A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science
by Alexander Boxer
Review
Curves for the Mathematically Curious
by Julian Havil
Review
Tales of Impossibility
by David S. Richeson
Review
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
by Francis Su
Review
It’s a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere
by Eddie Woo
Review
Quantum Mechanics: A Simplified Approach
by Shabnam Siddiqui
Review
The Maths of Life and Death
by Kit Yates
Review
The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe
by Brian Clegg
Review
Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić
by Allen Esterson and David C. Cassidy
Review
Calculus in 5 Hours: Concepts Revealed so You Don’t Have to Sit Through a Semester of Lectures
by Dennis Jarecke
Review
Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
by Ron Cowen
Review
Something Deeply Hidden
by Sean Carroll
Review
The Number of the Heavens
by Tom Siegfried
Review
Godel’s Disjunction
by Leon Horsten and Philip Welch
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Enlightening Symbols
by Joseph Mazur
Review
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets
by Graham Farmelo
Review
Weirder Maths: At the Edge of the Possible
by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee
Review
No Shadow of a Doubt
by Daniel Kennefick
Review
How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe
by William Poundstone
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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven Strogatz
Review
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
by David Spiegelhalter
Review
The Story of Mathematics: in 24 Equations
by Dana Mackenzie
Review
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
by Karl Sigmund
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Introduction to Geometry and Topology
by Werner Ballmann and Walker Stern
Review
Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations
by Brian Hayes
Review
The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
by William Dunham
Review
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
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Math Adventures with Python: An Illustrated Guide to Exploring Math with Code
by Peter Farrell
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Euler’s Pioneering Equation: The most beautiful theorem in mathematics
by Robin Wilson
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When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal
by Philip Moriarty
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Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by Seth Fletcher
Review
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
by Jeffrey Bub, Tanya Bub
Review
Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
by Basil Mahon
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Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives
by David Sumpter
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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
by Eli Maor
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An Introduction to Clifford Algebras and Spinors
by Jayme Vaz Jr. and Roldão da Rocha Jr.
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An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma
by Andy Field
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Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers
by Vicky Neale
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Nature-Inspired Algorithms and Applied Optimization
by Xin-She Yang
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The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure
by David Acheson
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Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann’s Entropy
by Eric Johnson
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
by Hannah Fry
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
by Peter Atkins
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Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI
by Hector J. Levesque
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Is That a Big Number?
by Andrew C. A. Elliott
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by Sabine Hossenfelder
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought (International Edition)
by Jim Holt
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Murmur
by Will Eaves
Review
Ten Great Ideas About Chance
by Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms
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From Music to Mathematics: Exploring the Connections
by Gareth E. Roberts
Review
Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee
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The Turing Guide
by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson
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Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
by Johnny Ball
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Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians
by Ian Stewart
Review
The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe
by Michael Brooks
Review
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies
by Jason Fagone
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Introduction to Fourier Optics
by Joseph Goodman
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Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World’s Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies
by Craig P. Bauer
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Mathematics of Secrets
by Joshua Holden
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Statistical Optics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)
by Joseph W. Goodman
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Deep Learning
by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio
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Network Science
by Albert-László Barabási
Review
Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability (New Scientist)
by New Scientist
Review
Einstein’s Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
by John Gribbin
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Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures
by Alfred S. Posamentier and Bernd Thaller
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Math Geek: From Klein Bottles to Chaos Theory, a Guide to the Nerdiest Math Facts, Theorems, and Equations
by Raphael Rosen
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Great Calculations: A Surprising Look Behind 50 Scientific Inquiries
by Colin Pask
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (Studies in Nonlinearity)
by Steven H. Strogatz
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Magic of Math
by Arthur Benjamin
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Applied Minds – How Engineers Think
by Guru Madhavan
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NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions
by Frank W. J. Olver, Daniel W. Lozier, Ronald F. Boisvert and Charles W. Clark
Review
Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations
by Yoav Shoham and Kevin Leyton-Brown
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An Illustrated Guide to Relativity
by Tatsu Takeuchi
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A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics
by David P. Landau and Kurt Binder
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by Eugenia Cheng
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
by Cédric Villani
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The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
by Keith Barnham
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Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
by Marcia Bartusiak
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Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers
by Ian Stewart
Review
Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
by Michael Harris
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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread–The Lessons from a New Science
by Alex Pentland
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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy
by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin
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Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
by Joseph Mazur
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Einsteins Dice and Schrödingers Cat
by Paul Halpern
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science — And the World
by Rachel Swaby
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How We Got from There to Here: A Story of Real Analysis
by Robert Rogers and Eugene Boman
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Mathematical Understanding of Nature: Essays on Amazing Physical Phenomena and Their Understanding by Mathematicians
by V. I. Arnold
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A Comet of the Enlightenment: Anders Johan Lexell’s Life and Discoveries
by Johan Sten
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Pearls from a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics
by Roman Duda
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
by Scott Aaronson
Review

Articles

Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product
Robot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines
Analog computing from waste heat
To Have Machines Make Math Proofs, Turn Them Into a Puzzle
Probing AI ‘thoughts’ reveals models use tree-like math to track shifting information
Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discovery?
Harnessing LLMs for Scientific Computing
For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time
The Fastest Way Yet to Color Graphs
AI Tools May Be Weakening the Quality of Published Research, Study Warns
New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing
New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
AI Framework DIMON Cracks Complex Equations at Supercomputer Speed—No HPC Required
Researchers create network to predict wave scattering paths
Analog AI Startup Aims to Lower Gen AI’s Power Needs
Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation
Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods
Robot Motion Diffusion Model: Motion Generation for Robotic Characters
Think simpler, flow faster: A deep learning approach to provide accurate solutions 1,000 times faster than before
How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
Google DeepMind’s new AI systems can now solve complex math problems
With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits
Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics
In Highly Connected Networks, There’s Always a Loop
Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count
Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities
Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time
Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Traveling Salesman Problem
A.I.’s Latest Challenge: the Math Olympics
The solution space of the spherical negative perceptron model is star-shaped, researchers find
‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolved math problem
Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade
A computer scientist pushes the boundaries of geometry
Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms
From stock markets to brain scans, new research harmonises hundreds of scientific methods to understand complex systems
New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient
Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster
The Great 8-bit Debate of Artificial Intelligence
MIT Makes Probability-Based Computing a Bit Brighter
New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize