Geometry

Important lectures on differential topology by acclaimed mathematician John Milnor These are notes from lectures that John Milnor delivered as a seminar on differential topology in 1963 at Princeton …

About the Book: Numerical Methods is the go-to textbook for B.Sc and B.Tech students in search of a comprehensive guide to numerical analysis. This self-contained classroom text offers an in-depth ex …

A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating histories Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wid …

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I As the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by th …

Math’s infinite mysteries unfold in this updated edition of the award-winning  The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers, ” and moving through time to our modern …

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germa …

One sun, two parents, three meals a day, four seasons, five fingers … every child soon discovers that lots of things in life have an inherent number attached to them. Just as five individual fingers …

Why does it always seem like the elevator is going down when you need to go up? Is it really true that 0.99999 . . . with an infinite number of 9s after the decimal point, is equal to 1? What do tea …

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a …

An exquisite visual celebration of the 2, 500-year history of geometry If you’ve ever thought that mathematics and art don’t mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind. As mu …