Most Read This Week In Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”) is the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space, and change.

Mathematicians seek out patterns and use them to formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning can provide insight or predictions about nature. Through the use of abstraction and logic, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and mo ...more

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Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers

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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

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The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf: A Counting Story

x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey

The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way

The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age

How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure

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Quotes Tagged “Mathematics”

“ Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley. ”
― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

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