New Books in Mathematics

New Books in Mathematics

Interviews with Mathematicians about their New Books


Episodes

Title Duration Published Consumed
Susan D'Agostino, "How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020) 01:04:33 2020-09-29 10:00
Alfred Posamentier, "Mathematics Entertainment for the Millions" (World Scientific Publishing, 2020) 00:57:59 2020-09-09 10:00
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020) 01:17:03 2020-09-04 10:00
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019) 01:27:28 2020-08-24 10:00
Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020) 00:57:39 2020-08-13 10:00
Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 01:06:46 2020-07-10 10:00
B. Fong and D. I. Spivak, "An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 02:01:23 2020-07-08 10:00
Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks" (Custom House, 2020) 00:43:20 2020-06-25 10:00
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020) 02:00:37 2020-06-02 10:00
sarah-marie belcastro, "Discrete Mathematics with Ducks" (CRC Press, 2018) 00:32:31 2020-05-29 10:00
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019) 00:59:35 2020-04-28 10:00
Alex Berke, "Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math" (MIT Press, 2020) 00:53:35 2020-04-22 10:00
Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020) 00:52:02 2020-04-03 10:00
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020) 00:54:19 2020-03-30 10:00
Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020) 00:56:37 2020-03-10 09:00
Maureen T. Carroll and Elyn Rykken, "Geometry: The Line and the Circle" (MAA Press, 2018) 00:49:41 2020-02-26 10:00
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020) 00:42:21 2020-02-25 10:00
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020) 00:39:30 2020-01-30 10:00
Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball" (Princeton UP, 2019) 00:45:47 2020-01-29 10:00
Brian Clegg, "Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge" (Icon Books, 2019) 00:54:01 2020-01-28 10:00
David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019) 01:02:44 2019-12-13 10:00
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019) 00:57:32 2019-12-03 10:00
Gary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics" (Race Point Press, 2018) 00:40:56 2019-11-22 10:00
Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Curious" (Princeton UP, 2019) 00:59:41 2019-11-15 10:00
Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) 00:56:56 2019-11-14 10:00
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing 00:40:25 2019-11-03 10:00
David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility" (Princeton UP, 2019) 00:53:40 2019-10-30 09:00
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019) 00:32:43 2019-10-24 10:00
David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) 01:13:57 2019-10-17 10:00
Alfred S. Posamentier, "Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math" (WSPC, 2019) 00:57:33 2019-09-16 10:00
Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century" (Birkhäuser, 2019) 01:00:36 2019-08-28 10:00
Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019) 00:56:26 2019-05-02 12:00
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing 00:32:15 2019-03-19 11:00
Kartik Hosanagar, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives" (Viking, 2019) 00:55:36 2019-03-12 11:00
Andrew C. A. Elliott, “Is That a Big Number?” (Oxford UP, 2018) 00:53:22 2018-11-09 12:00
Al Posamentier and Christian Speitzer, “The Mathematics of Everyday Life” (Prometheus Books, 2018) 00:50:26 2018-10-08 12:00
Eli Maor, “Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg” (Princeton UP, 2018) 00:56:27 2018-07-18 12:00
Vicky Neale, “Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers” (Oxford UP, 2017) 00:55:14 2017-12-12 12:00
Alfred Posamentier et. al., “The Joy of Mathematics: Marvels, Novelties, and Neglected Gems That Are Rarely Taught in Math Class” (Prometheus Books, 2017) 00:57:01 2017-10-16 14:03
Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017) 00:54:58 2017-09-19 23:02
Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017) 00:52:01 2017-06-29 20:12
Oscar Fernandez, “The Calculus of Happiness” (Princeton UP, 2017) 00:53:56 2017-06-11 14:35
David Danks, “Unifying the Mind: Cognitive Representations as Graphical Models” (MIT Press, 2014) 01:09:07 2017-05-15 12:00
Raffi Grinberg, “The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs” (Princeton UP, 2017) 00:53:48 2017-02-15 12:00
Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016) 01:04:38 2017-01-23 23:51
Brian Clegg, “Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World (St. Martin’s Press, 2016) 00:52:58 2017-01-04 03:18
Ian Stewart, “Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe” (Basic Books, 2016) 00:55:55 2016-12-29 13:45
Alfred Posamentier and Stephen Krulik, “Effective Techniques to Motivate Mathematics Instruction” (Routledge, 2016) 00:55:25 2016-10-01 12:00
Alfred S. Posamentier and Robert Geretschlager, “The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration Beyond the Line” (Prometheus Books, 2016) 00:55:31 2016-09-11 11:08
Beineke and Rosenhouse, eds., “The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math” (Princeton UP, 2015) 00:55:16 2016-05-23 13:01
Adam Kucharski, “The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling” (Basic Books, 2016) 00:52:42 2016-03-31 14:55
James D. Stein, “L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels” (Princeton UP, 2016) 00:59:44 2016-02-24 18:32
Lynn Gamwell, “Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History” (Princeton UP, 2015) 00:59:18 2016-01-05 16:08
Brian Clegg, “How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? The Ultimate Science Quiz Book” (Icon Books, 2015) 00:54:02 2015-12-07 13:36
Dan Bouk, “How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) 00:44:07 2015-11-23 06:00
John Allen Paulos, “A Numerate Life” (Prometheus Books, 2015) 00:53:39 2015-11-12 18:05
Arthur Benjamin, “The Magic of Math” (Basic Book, 2015) 00:56:29 2015-09-30 16:42
Margaret Morrison, “Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations” (Oxford UP, 2015) 01:08:30 2015-07-15 08:00
Christopher J. Phillips, “The New Math: A Political History” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) 01:07:46 2015-03-26 11:58
Colin Adams, “Zombies and Calculus” (Princeton UP, 2014) 00:53:00 2014-10-15 14:27
Jordan Ellenberg, “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” (Penguin Press, 2014) 00:55:17 2014-07-08 15:02
Sue VanHattum, “Playing with Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and Passionate Teachers” (Natural Math, 2015) 01:02:44 2014-06-26 08:00
Al Cuoco and Joe Rotman, “Learning Modern Algebra: From Early Attempts to Prove Fermat’s Last Theorem” (MAA, 2013) 01:15:09 2014-06-20 13:29
David Reimer, “Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2014) 01:17:51 2014-06-09 16:17
Peter Gardenfors, “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces” (MIT Press, 2014) 00:44:32 2014-06-09 14:01
Oscar E. Fernandez, “Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us (Princeton UP, 2014) 00:53:41 2014-04-17 13:23
Michael Strevens, “Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure” (Harvard UP, 2013) 01:01:00 2014-04-15 08:00
Tim Chartier, “Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing” (Princeton UP, 2014) 01:13:13 2014-04-08 15:32
Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014) 01:35:54 2014-02-14 18:16
Eli Maor and Eugen Jost, “Beautiful Geometry” (Princeton UP, 2014) 00:51:33 2014-02-11 20:55
Edward Frenkel, “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality” (Basic Books, 2013) 00:57:10 2013-11-08 19:30
Colm Mulcahy, “Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects” (A K Peters, 2013) 01:16:16 2013-09-26 15:58
Brian Clegg, “Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe” (Icon Books, 2013) 00:53:12 2013-06-04 17:55
Leonard Wapner, “Unexpected Expectations: The Curiosities of a Mathematical Crystal Ball” (A.K. Peters, 2012) 00:57:01 2013-05-06 19:29
Lance Fortnow, “The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible” (Princeton UP, 2013)) 00:54:09 2013-04-02 14:04
Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, “Math on Trial” (Basic Books, 2013) 01:00:57 2013-03-13 18:52
Catherine Jami, “The Emperor’s New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)” (Oxford UP, 2012) 01:10:03 2012-10-19 13:27
Roger Hart, “The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011) 01:08:00 2012-07-27 22:13