There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

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THE seventh edition of this famous text-book, first published in 1908, has now appeared. It has been revised and reset. The Cambridge Press mathematical printing is better than ever, the spacing and ...

Want to get quicker at calculations? Having a good mental maths book will surely be helpful. These mathematics books have tricks that you can master to be quick and efficient in making big ...

Early in his new book, physics historian Graham Farmelo quotes Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J.: “We can eavesdrop on nature not ...