Most Read This Week In 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 ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Mathematics"

Very Bad at Math (A Very Graphic Novel #1)

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science

The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life

Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

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

J.D. and the Great Barber Battle (J.D. the Kid Barber)

The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

Usha and the Big Digger (Storytelling Math)

Aftermath: The Life-Changing Math That Schools Won't Teach You

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos

Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution

The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey

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The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity

Counting to Bananas: A Mostly Rhyming Fruit Book

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks

Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter

If the World Were 100 People: A Visual Guide to Our Global Village

CATastrophe!: A Story of Patterns (A Catastrophe Tale)

Trillions of Trees: A Counting and Planting Book

Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! (Storytelling Math)

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

Some of These Are Snails (Curious Concepts)

Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7

The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind the Symbols

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: The Story of Architect I. M. Pei

The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times

Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock (Little Jesús, #1)

Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird)

How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions―and the Art of Knowing When Not To

One Tiny Treefrog: A Countdown to Survival

More Numbers Every Day: How Data, Stats, and Figures Control Our Lives and How to Set Ourselves Free

How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

Modeling Mindsets: The Many Cultures Of Learning From Data

Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf: A Counting Story

The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math

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At Sixes and Sevens: How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy

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Quotes Tagged “Mathematics”

“ I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! ...more ”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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“ The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake. ”
― Roman Payne

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