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
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The Maniac
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Very Bad at Math (A Very Graphic Novel #1)
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
Adrift: America in 100 Charts
Math Without Numbers
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems
The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Fermat's Enigma
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
A Mathematician's Apology
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterChaos by James GleickThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Information by James Gleick
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Richard Dawkins
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

G.K. Chesterton
The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.
G.K. Chesterton

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