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
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Very Bad at Math (A Very Graphic Novel #1)
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Rationality
Adrift: America in 100 Charts
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems
Trajectory
Are You Small?
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
The Probability of Everything: A Governor General's Award-Winning Story about Family, Love, and Saying Goodbye for Children (Ages 8-12)
Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Fermat's Enigma
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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
Complexity
163 books — 165 voters

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusLove, Theoretically by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Algorithm by Camilla IsleyThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Theorem by Camilla Isley
52 Book Club 2024: #6 Women In STEM
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Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen CroninAlphabet Amigos by Angel M. AlvarezDragons Don't Dance Ballet by Jennifer CarsonCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Classroom books
195 books — 68 voters

Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneCHROMOSOMAL MUTATIONS IN TWIN ZYGOTES by Jianyi ZhangThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Awesome Science Books
222 books — 78 voters
Every 9 Minutes by Christina VitaglianoThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Modern Science Nonfiction
480 books — 388 voters


Yōko Ogawa
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

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

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