10 New Books In Mathematics Gleeson Gleanings

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10 new books in mathematics gleeson gleanings

Here is a sample of mathematics-related books that are new to Gleeson Library. To view additional titles, see New Mathematics Books on the library website. Nik, the Maya Zero: The Mathematics, Culture, and Philosophy of Maya Numerals “Nik, the Maya zero”—with an introduction by USF professor Aparna Venkatesan—explores the mathematical and astronomical knowledge of Maya culture through an English translation of José Mucía Batz Lem’s work. The book delves into the Maya concept of time and their unique interpretation of zero as a foundational point for numbers. It highlights the symbolic representation of time in Maya culture and presents zero not as “nothing,” but as the origin of positive and negative numbers.

This translation aims to make Maya mathematical insights more accessible to a broader audience while preserving the original text’s conversational nature and exploring the philosophical implications of Maya numerals. Beautiful Math: The Surprisingly Simple Ideas Behind the Digital Revolution in How We Live, Work, and Communicate “Beautiful Math” by Chris Bernhardt explores the mathematical foundations of the digital age. The book covers four main themes: information, communication, computation, and learning. Bernhardt uses simple mathematical models to reveal deep connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, explaining key ideas like information theory, digital-analog conversion, algorithms, and neural networks. The author aims to present these complex topics with minimal mathematics, making them accessible to a wide audience.

Historical anecdotes provide context for technological developments. The book offers readers, regardless of their mathematical background, an engaging journey through the mathematical principles underlying our digital world. It's a golden age for popular math books and as new books are published, we'll list the ones written by Five Books interviewees and frequently recommended authors, here. Please email us ([email protected]) with any books that should appear on this list. The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding The Best Literary Science Writing: The 2023 PEN/E.O.

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New mathematics books include “Mathematical Intelligence,” which emphasizes human creativity over machines, and “Probably Overthinking It,” a guide to data-driven decision-making. Other notable titles explore historical contributions to math, its cultural impact, and advances in fields like topology and chaos theory, offering diverse insights into mathematics. Continue reading Ten New Books in Mathematics The Math Book, part of DK’s acclaimed Big Ideas series, offers an engaging introduction to mathematics for both beginners and those wanting a refresher. With over 85 key concepts and events, it covers the evolution of math from ancient civilizations to modern breakthroughs like cryptography and artificial intelligence. Clear explanations, striking graphics, charts, and timelines help demystify complex ideas, making even topics like imaginary numbers and statistics accessible.

The book also highlights influential mathematicians and the ongoing impact of math on technology, nature, and daily life, making math relevant and intriguing for all readers. Sum Stories explores eighteen famous mathematical equations and the fascinating history behind them. Spanning 4,000 years—from ancient Greek geometry and early counting to Renaissance algebra, fractals, and Boolean logic—the book traces how math has shaped human understanding. Along the way, it tackles questions such as proving 1 + 1 = 2, the length of Britain’s coastline, formulas for prime numbers, and the mysteries of infinity. Illustrated with historical artifacts and clear diagrams, this accessible and engaging collection makes complex ideas approachable, offering general readers an entertaining journey through the beauty, logic, and cultural impact of mathematics. This book by USF professor emeritus John Stillwell explores algebraic number theory by extending unique prime factorization from integers to broader domains, arising from solving polynomial equations in integers—where factorization may fail.

Dedekind’s ideals restore it, supported by concepts like algebraic number fields, integers, rings, vector spaces, and modules. Emmy Noether formalized these in Dedekind rings. Tracing historical development, the text motivates each step toward factorization, minimizing prerequisites for a self-contained, accessible read, ideal for a one-semester course. Algorithms now shape everyday life—from facial recognition at airports to systems deciding loans and bail—but their roots stretch centuries. Building on their Columbia course, Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones trace data’s history from the U.S.

census and Victorian eugenics to Google search, showing how data is made, curated, and weaponized to define truth and distribute power. They reveal how mathematical and computational techniques reorganize people, institutions, militaries, and economies, amid an unstable contest among states, corporations, and the public. Understanding this trajectory, they argue, lets us steer data’s future—intentionally—toward collective goals rather than inherited defaults. This approachable introduction guides readers from the intuitive idea of counting to the rigorous construction of the real numbers. Starting with finite sets and natural numbers, each new type—integers, modular numbers, rationals—is built systematically from the previous using equivalence relations. The book reveals how complex numbers like π emerge from simple concepts without requiring advanced theorem-proof study.

Clear explanations, step-by-step development, and included exercises make it ideal for students new to university mathematics who want to understand real numbers’ foundations before tackling formal graduate-level courses. Here is a sample of mathematics-related books that are new to Gleeson Library. To view additional titles, see New Mathematics Books on the library website. Mathematical Intelligence: A Story of Human Superiority over Machines In “Mathematical Intelligence,” Junaid Mubeen challenges the notion that machines will surpass human intelligence. He argues that mathematics, often misunderstood and poorly taught, gives humans a creative edge over computers. Mubeen identifies seven areas where human mathematical abilities excel, including our innate sense of numerical approximation, capacity for abstraction and language, logical reasoning skills, and ability to question and imagine beyond conventional rules.

While computers excel at calculations and pattern recognition, Mubeen contends that human mathematical thinking offers a unique blend of creativity, reasoning, and intuition that machines cannot replicate, positioning mathematics as a crucial tool for... Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions “Probably Overthinking It” by Allen B. Downey is a concise guide to statistical thinking for everyone. Using real-world examples from various fields, Downey illustrates how data can improve decision-making and highlights common pitfalls in statistical interpretation. The book emphasizes the importance of correct data analysis in areas such as healthcare, policy-making, and social justice. Through data visualizations and accessible explanations, Downey builds readers’ understanding of statistical concepts, enabling them to recognize errors in their own thinking and media reports.

This book offers valuable insights for both statistics novices and those seeking to refresh their knowledge. What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences The What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences series explores recent mathematical discoveries in an accessible manner. The 2023 volume covers topics like artificial intelligence, with “Deep Learning: Part Math, Part Alchemy” examining machine learning advances. “Organizing the Chaos Inside the Brain” applies chaos theory to animal brain simulations. Pure math enthusiasts will enjoy chapters on tiling, sphere-packing, and multi-view geometry. “How to Draw an Alternate Universe” delves into non-Euclidean geometry, while “How Mathematicians Unearthed the Stubborn Secrets of Fano Varieties” explores algebraic geometry.

Other topics include prime numbers without a “7” and fluid singularities, linking back to machine learning. The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers “The Secret Lives of Numbers” by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell reframes mathematics’ history, highlighting overlooked contributors across six continents and millennia. The book challenges the Eurocentric narrative, showcasing diverse mathematicians like Hypatia, Karen Uhlenbeck, and scholars from the “House of Wisdom.” It explores groundbreaking work by Madhava of Sangamagrama and Black mathematicians during the Civil... This comprehensive narrative spans thousands of years and various mathematical disciplines, offering a fresh perspective on the global development of mathematics and its unsung heroes. Mathematics is the study of the most general relational aspects of reality, or “formal” properties of the world. Such properties of things are strongly invariant under diverse operations, preserving the same abstract structural features despite different concrete empirical contents.

For example, the number five is a feature both of the human hand and of the stars in the US flag. Thus, even though fingers and vertices are very different kinds of things, they do have something important in common: they are both instances of the number five. The range of mathematics is extraordinarily wide, embracing everything from daily life (as in grocery shopping) to highly technical scientific applications (like nuclear power and the Internet) to pure math (which has no applications... With all this in mind, we have compiled a list of the most influential books in mathematics of the past decade (2010–2020). We have assigned an objective measure of “influence” to each book within its subfield on the basis of the number of references it has received in both the academic literature and the popular media. Note that our list does not necessarily represent the most popular math books overall published during the past ten years, nor is it a list of mathematics bestsellers during that time frame—for several reasons.

For one thing, we have excluded math textbooks and technical reference works, as well as sacred texts and all but the very most influential of fictional works, which may contain math-related material.

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