Posts in category Book Review
Really Big Numbers (Book Review)
Really Big Numbers by Richard Schwartz will be published by the American Mathematical Society on July 3, 2014.
“Now and then we pluck numbers from the blur…numbers which have no names except the ones we might now give them…souvenirs from alien, unknowable worlds.”
-Really Big Numbers by Richard Evan Schwartz
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How Not to Be Wrong (Book Review)
How Not to Be Wrong, the first popular math book by University of Wisconsin-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg, just hit the shelves. In addition to a Ph.D. in math, Ellenberg has an MFA in creative writing and has been writing about math for popular audiences for several years. Unsurprisingly, the book is witty, compelling, and just pla [...]
Consider the Octahedron
An octahedron for your consideration. Image: Mammaoca2008 (CC) via flickr
I wrote a review of Measurement by Paul Lockhart for the winter 2012-2013 issue of Columbia Magazine.
“Many popular books and articles aim to tie mathematics to everyday life: calculus is used to study income inequality, game theory explains international politics [...]
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