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…
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Articles
Applied Math
Bad Mathematics: A Trillion Dollar Problem
“Our advice: Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” — Warren Buffett, Letter to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Reporting Huge Losses In the classic 1961 Disney science fiction comedy movie…
Applied Math
Quantum Catfight
During the seventeenth century, the physicist Isaac Newton conducted a series of experiments studying the properties of light. Newton encountered a puzzling enigma. He found that light behaved…
Applied Math
Einstein: Superman or Super Stubborn?
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.…
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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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…
History
An Unreasonable Man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.…
Essential Math
Interview with Derrick Niederman, author of Number Freak
In this interview we sit down with author and mathematician Derrick Niederman to discuss his engaging, recently published book about the first two hundred natural numbers, ‘Number Freak:…
History
Book Review: “Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World”
In my last blog entry, I mentioned several math books I’ve been reading lately. Over the weekend I wrapped up reading Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner…
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My mid-2009 math reading list
With summertime underway, I thought I would share a list of 12 mathematical books that I’ve been reading between the beginning of this year and now. Some of…
Essential Math
Review of Math for Moms and Dads
Last weekend I had a chance to read Math for Moms and Dads, which I received from Kaplan as a review copy. This book aims to providing a…