Essential Math
Developing Math Intuition
Today Kalid Azad released a premium edition of his well-received Math Better Explained ebook. This brand new edition (available for a limited time for just $47) boasts a…
MathBlog Team
Antonio started Math Blog more than a decade ago. He has a deep-rooted passion for mathematics and programming. He is part of the Emerging Technologies team in the Analytics group at IBM, a team that focuses on data science and big data.
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Suggested Reading
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010
While compiling the new math releases for my site that helps you “discover new books“, I came across a brand new book by Princeton University Press, called “The…
Math Education
Watch Khan Academy on your mobile device
Khan Academy is an amazing non-for-profit project that’s chock full of mathematics, science, and other educational videos. Wide coverage, excellent explanations, and the fact that’s 100% free to…
Applied Math
The Joy of Stats (Video)
The Joy of Stats is an hour long BBC documentary by Professor Hans Rosling, in which he illustrates the beauty and importance of statistics as a means of…
Math Education
Free Kindle Math Books
The CK-12 Foundation is a wonderful non-profit organization. Recently they released several free Kindle ebooks about Mathematics. Currently in the Kindle store you can find the following CK-12…
Math Websites
Get weekly emails about new Mathematics books
Today I’m announcing a pet project of mine that I think may interest some of my readers. Any new books? is a free notification service which enables you…
Applied Math
In-Depth Book Review: The Computer as Crucible
Title: The Computer as CrucibleAuthors: Jonathan Borwein and Keith DevlinTrue pp.: 154Publisher: A K Peters LtdPublished on: November 2008ISBN-13: 978-1568813431Rating: 8/10 Jonathan Borwein and Keith Devlin are well-known…
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Forget Pi, here comes Tau
Some readers may be familiar with Bob Palais’ article “π Is Wrong”. Within it Palais argues that π is the wrong choice of circle constant. This quote, from…
Math Education
Interview with Professor Marcus du Sautoy
In this interview we chat with with Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, Simonyi Professor for the public understanding of science, Fellow of…
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Switching from Feedburner Email to AWeber for my newsletter
This is just a brief post to let my readers know that I’m switching from Feedburner Email’s service to AWeber to handle sending out my posts via email.…
Suggested Reading
Math Books reviewed and classified by area of mathematics
It is with great pleasure that I announce something that we have been working on for a while. We just published a Math Books page, containing what we…
Math News
Happy Pi Day!
Pi is a remarkable number and represents, in the collective mind, the field of mathematics better than any other number. Today is March 14 (or 3/14 when written…