The following is a list of 46 interesting math books that were released in 2011. As some of you know, I run a service called Any New Books?, which emails you a list of new books that are related to the categories of your choice each week. For the most part I pulled this list from the weekly staff picks there...

We don’t usually include off-topic posts here, but I feel this may interest some of our readers, plus it’s a shameless plug as well. If you’ve always wanted to start your own technical blog, perhaps about a mathematical or scientific topic, but never got around to do it or failed to attract a...

Numb3rs is a television show that ran for six seasons on CBS from 2005 to 2010 about FBI agent Don Eppes and his brother Charles, a child math prodigy turned math professor at CalSci (a thinly disguised Caltech), who fight crime with mathematics in a sunny, smog-free TV version of Los Angeles filled with an...

The other day I received a math book that’s geared towards children. It’s called “You Can Count On Monsters” (USA | UK | Canada) by Professor Richard Evan Schwartz. This mathematics book is unconventional in the sense that it’s mostly comprised of drawings, with relatively few words or formulas....

A couple of days ago we asked you to tell us about your favorite math book. Now that the results are in, we must say that while some titles were expected, there are quite a few surprises as well. Quite frankly we were blown away by the great list of math books we compiled with your input. Listed in the order...

Let’s do a small experiment. I’m not sure what the outcome will be, but definitely think it’s worth a shot no matter what. Using this link you can fill out a form and let us know about one great math book you’ve read and loved. It can be a textbook, a popular science book, or even a mathematical...

Today Kalid Azad released a premium edition of his well-received Math Better Explained ebook. This brand new edition (available for a limited time for just $47) boasts a screencast for each of the 12 chapters in the book, as well as a 3-part interview about developing your mathematical intuition with Scott H...

While compiling the new math releases for my site that helps you “discover new books“, I came across a brand new book by Princeton University Press, called “The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010“. While I haven’t had the opportunity to read this book yet, (it was just...

The CK-12 Foundation is a wonderful non-profit organization. Recently they released several free Kindle ebooks about Mathematics. Currently in the Kindle store you can find the following CK-12 Foundation math titles, all priced at $0.00: Algebra I Geometry Trigonometry Calculus Advanced Probability and...

“Our advice: Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” — Warren Buffett, Letter to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Reporting Huge Losses In the classic 1961 Disney science fiction comedy movie The Absent Minded Professor, Professor Ned Brainard of Medfield College of Technology has been struggling for...