New Books in Mathematics

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episode 77: David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)


Bressoud takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today...


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 August 24, 2020  1h27m
 
 

episode 51: Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)


There are very few math books that merit the adjective ‘charming.' This is one of them.


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 August 13, 2020  57m
 
 

episode 223: Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)


O’Connor introduces the basics of game theory and its particular branch, evolutionary game theory...


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 July 10, 2020  1h6m
 
 

episode 50: B. Fong and D. I. Spivak, "An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality" (Cambridge UP, 2019)


Fong and Spivak have written a marvelous and timely new textbook that, as its title suggests, invites readers of all backgrounds to explore what it means to take a compositional approach and how it might serve their needs....


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 July 8, 2020  2h1m
 
 
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 June 25, 2020  43m
 
 
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 June 2, 2020  2h0m
 
 

episode 49: sarah-marie belcastro, "Discrete Mathematics with Ducks" (CRC Press, 2018)


The book includes an introductory chapter on algorithms and several bonus chapters, for example on number theory and on complexity, which instructors and interested students can subset as they please...


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 May 29, 2020  32m
 
 

episode 193: Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)


How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?


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 April 28, 2020  59m
 
 

episode 48: Alex Berke, "Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math" (MIT Press, 2020)


Alex Berke's "Beautiful Symmetry" is both a fascinating book and a concept -- it's like no other book I’ve ever read. It's a coloring book about math...


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 April 22, 2020  53m
 
 

episode 47: Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020)


Nahin offers a thorough study of the history and mathematics of the heat equation, which is not only important as an analysis of heat, its analysis marked the beginning of Fourier series...


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 April 3, 2020  52m