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Math Books reviewed and classified by area of mathematics
Posted by Antonio Cangiano on Mar 15th, 2010
It is with great pleasure that I announce something that we have been working on for a while. We just published a Math Books page, containing what we consider to be some of the best books on various areas of mathematics. The list is not exhaustive by any stretch,...

Happy Pi Day!...

Happy Pi Day!
Posted by Antonio Cangiano on Mar 14th, 2010
Pi is a remarkable number and represents, in the collective mind, the field of mathematics better than any other number. Today is March 14 (or 3/14 when written in the generally used American date format), a day that is celebrated by many as Pi Day. This date is...

An Unreasonable Man...

An Unreasonable Man
Posted by John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on Jan 31st, 2010
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw (attributed) Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical...

Kepler’s New Astronomy...

Kepler’s New Astronomy
Posted by John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on Dec 17th, 2009
This year (2009) is the 400th anniversary of the publication of Johannes Kepler’s book New Astronomy (Astronomia Nova) announcing the discovery of the elliptical orbit of Mars to the world. The discovery of the elliptical orbit of Mars and the mathematical rule...

Faster, Better, Cheaper Search...

Faster, Better, Cheaper Search Engines
Posted by John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on Oct 25th, 2009
Searching for documents and other items on the Web or computers is often tedious and time consuming. Time is money. Highly paid professionals spend hours, days, and even longer searching for information on the Web or computers. Most search today is done using key...
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Math Books reviewed and classified by area of mathematics It is with great pleasure that I announce something that we have been working on for a while. We just published a Math Books page, containing what we consider to be some of the best books on various areas of mathematics. The list is not exhaustive by any stretch, capping at a total of 52 books so far, but it...
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Happy Pi Day! Pi is a remarkable number and represents, in the collective mind, the field of mathematics better than any other number. Today is March 14 (or 3/14 when written in the generally used American date format), a day that is celebrated by many as Pi Day. This date is important not so much because we are obsessed...
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Review of Math for Moms and Dads Last weekend I had a chance to read Math for Moms and Dads, which I received from Kaplan as a review copy. This book aims to providing a friendly guide for parents of children ages ten and up, who are struggling with mathematics. Many parents face the challenge of helping their children with math homework,...