New Books in Mathematics
Interviews with Mathematicians about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/mathematics/
- Description
- Interviews with Mathematicians about their New Books
- Language
- š¬š§ English
- last modified
- 2025-01-28 14:19
- last episode published
- 2025-01-28 09:00
- publication frequency
- 30.25 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Owner Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 152
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- Categories
- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-28 | What are numbers, and where do they come from? Based on her groundbreaking study of material devices used for counting in the Ancient Near East, Karenleigh Overmann proposes a novel answer to these timeless questions. Tune in as we talk with Karenleigh... |
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| 2024-12-19 | Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. InĀ Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday LifeĀ (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pang... |
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| 2024-09-09 |
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022) Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research represents an extraordinary event in the long history of textuality. More or less all at once, theĀ corpu... |
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| 2024-09-02 |
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021) Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequence. InĀ Ten Patterns That Explain the UniverseĀ (MIT Press, 2021),Ā Brian Clegg explores the phenomena t... |
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| 2024-06-24 | A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today's cultures of prediction. The ability to make reliable predictions based on robust and replicable methods is ... |
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| 2024-06-19 |
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024) How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths. InĀ ... |
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| 2024-05-10 | Beginning graduate students in mathematical sciences and related areas in physical and computer sciences and engineering are expected to be familiar with a daunting breadth of mathematics, but few have such a background. This bestselling book helps stu... |
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| 2024-04-15 | The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily on our historical and contemporary fellow travelers. Yet we may not appreciate how our work also exten... |
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| 2024-02-01 | What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do th... |
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| 2023-09-12 | Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020,Ā Bookshop.orgĀ has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview,Ā Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey ... |
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