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Popular mathematics is mathematical presentation aimed at a general audience. Sometimes this is in the form of books which require no mathematical background and in other cases it is in the form of expository articles written by professional mathematicians to reach out to others working in different areas.

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Popular mathematics

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Popular mathematics is mathematical presentation aimed at a general audience. Sometimes this is in the form of books which require no mathematical background...

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Mathematics

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Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained...

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Recreational mathematics

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Recreational mathematics is mathematics carried out for recreation (entertainment) rather than as a strictly research- and application-based professional...

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Popular science

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Arguably one of the first books in modern popular science, it contained few diagrams and very little mathematics. It had ten editions and was translated...

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Holly Krieger

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dynamical systems. She is well known for her appearances in the popular mathematics YouTube video series Numberphile. Originally from Champaign, Illinois...

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The Mathematics of Life

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The Mathematics of Life is a 2011 popular science book by mathematician Ian Stewart, on the increasing role of mathematics in biology. Stewart discusses...

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Icons of Mathematics

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Icons of Mathematics: An Exploration of Twenty Key Images is a book on elementary geometry for a popular audience. It was written by Roger B. Nelsen and...

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The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

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discussions of mathematical topics, anecdotes and history". Topics covered include Fermat's Last Theorem, which Singh has written a popular book about, and...

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Mathematics education

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In contemporary education, mathematics education—known in Europe as the didactics or pedagogy of mathematics—is the practice of teaching, learning, and...

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From Zero to Infinity

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From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting is a book in popular mathematics and number theory by Constance Reid. It was originally published...

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History of mathematics

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The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern...

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Mathematics and the Imagination

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Mathematics and the Imagination is a book published in New York by Simon & Schuster in 1940. The authors are Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. The illustrator...

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Mathematical Excursions

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Mathematical Excursions: Side Trips along Paths Not Generally Traveled in Elementary Courses in Mathematics is a book on popular mathematics. It was written...

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A History of Pi

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Beckmann that presents a layman's introduction to the concept of the mathematical constant pi (π). Beckmann was a Czechoslovakian who fled the Communist...

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Martin Gardner

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Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific...

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Marcus du Sautoy

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University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popular science books. He was previously[when?] a fellow of All Souls...

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Infinity and the Mind

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popular mathematics book by American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer Rudy Rucker. The book contains accessible popular expositions...

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Timothy Gowers

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Scholar, where he was taught mathematics by Norman Routledge. In 1981, Gowers won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad with a perfect score...

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The Library of Babel

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arrangement of books. Mathematics professor William Goldbloom Bloch confirms the narrator's intuition, deducing in his popular mathematics book The Unimaginable...

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Vladimir Arnold

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mathematics. Through his lectures, seminars, and as the author of several textbooks (such as Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics) and popular...

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Taking Sudoku Seriously

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Sudoku Seriously: The math behind the world's most popular pencil puzzle is a book on the mathematics of Sudoku. It was written by Jason Rosenhouse and...

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How to Bake Pi

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How to Bake Pi is a popular mathematics book by Eugenia Cheng published in 2015. Each chapter of the book begins with a recipe for a dessert, to illustrate...

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Lumen Naturae

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of the Abstract in Art and Mathematics is a book on connections between contemporary art, on the one hand, and mathematics and theoretical physics, on...

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How Not to Be Wrong

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societal philosophies with basic mathematics and statistical principles. How Not to Be Wrong explains the mathematics behind some of simplest day-to-day...

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List of women in mathematics

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achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education,: xii  the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach...

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