Mathematics Books
Princeton University Press Scouting and Scoring
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of a SABR Baseball Research Award, Society for American Baseball Research""Finalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine"
£16.14
Princeton University Press Statistical Thinking Analyzing Data in an
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£29.75
Princeton University Press Tales of Impossibility
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I greatly enjoyed Richeson's Tales of Impossibility. It deserves to become a classic and can be highly recommended."---Robin Wilson, Times Higher Education"Even if you never read a single proof through to its conclusion, you’ll enjoy the many entertaining side trips into a geometry far beyond what you learned in high school."---Jim Stein, New Books in Mathematics"The whole book, both informative and amusing, is a highly recommended read."---Adhemar Bulteel, European Mathematical Society"This book was a pleasure to read and I would recommend it for anybody who wants a lovely overview of many areas of the history of mathematics, with a focus on some very easy to understand problems."---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica"Richeson clearly explains what it means to be impossible to solve a problem, cites other impossibility results, goes into detail about geometric constructions with various instruments, and discusses the defective proofs and the cranks that have turned up along the way." * Mathematics Magazine *"This fascinating text will appeal to all those interested in the history of mathematics, not leasy because of its helpful notes on each chapter and its two dozen pages of references for further reading"---Laurence E. Nicholas CMath FIMA, Mathematics Today"A fact-filled, insightful, panoramic view of how mathematics developed to what it is today transformed by folks thinking both inside and outside of G so as to resolve the impossible."---Andrew J. Simoson, Mathematical Intelligencer
£17.09
Princeton University Press When Least Is Best
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nahin has written a beautifully clear, fascinating book on a topic which is truly vital to so many areas of science and I would recommend anyone who enjoys puzzle solving and having new tools to tackle old (or new) problems should read it."---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica
£14.39
Princeton University Press 99 Variations on a Proof
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""This book is an insightful addition to mathematical literature."---Robert Maddox-Harle, Leonardo Reviews"Ording presents ninety-nine proofs that a specific cubic equation has two real roots. The theorem itself is fairly uninteresting, but the proofs are the stars and each of them seeks to show a different aspect of the theory, history, or culture of mathematics."---Geoffrey Dietz, MAA Reviews"These proofs’ playfulness at the boundary of sense and nonsense surely expands the limits of mathematical exposition as well as readerly response to mathematical ideas. I think Queneau would have been proud."---Dan Rockmore, New York Review of Books"This rather unusual book shows that . . . the essentials for communicating mathematical contents is not formulas, let alone numbers, but a more or less precise reasoning in a convincing language."---Jürgen Appell, Zentralblatt MATH"A deep and thoughtful examination of the nature of mathematical arguments, of mathematical style, and of proof itself."---Chris Sangwin, London Mathematical Newsletter"[A] fascinating book. . . . The book can be recommended as light reading and, in particular, for everyone who wants to become more aware of the different styles used in mathematical writing."---C. Fuchs, International Mathematical News"[99 Variations on a Proof] is certainly beautifully produced and invites dipping into rather than reading from cover to cover."---Nick Lord, Mathematical Gazette "In his marvelous book 99 Variations on a Proof, Philip Ording demonstrates in a creative, often amusing, and always illuminating way that there are many, many good styles for writing mathematical proofs. Mathematicians (in fact, almost all writers) have much to learn about their craft from this book, and mathematical literature much to gain."---John J. Watkins, Mathematical Intelligencer
£16.19
Princeton University Press The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This series . . . never disappoints. Mircea does an amazing job each time at collecting such a diverse ideas, voices, and areas of mathematics, that I usually find the vast majority of them to be exceptional. This year is no different."---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica
£82.00
Princeton University Press The Discrete Charm of the Machine Why the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Computer scientist Steiglitz examines the global transformation from analog to digital and the ways it changed how we calculate, communicate and entertain ourselves. He describes the nuts and bolts of taking something analog, such as waves traveling through the air that make sound, and converting them into 0s and 1s, all in witty and cogent language."---Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American"This is an engaging and enjoyable book. Readers interested in the differences between analogue and digital approaches to computation and signal processing will not find a better popular treatment."---Thomas Haigh, Nature Electronics"Reading this book was a great pleasure and there is lots to be effusive about. . . .this book deserves to be read by everyone interested in, or influenced by, modern digital technologies. When you think about it, this is pretty much everyone. So, in this reviewer's opinion, this book is destined to become a modern classic."---Rob Ashmore, Mathematics Today
£16.19
Princeton University Press How to Fall Slower Than Gravity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is without a doubt the most enjoyable, stimulating book of mathematical physics (and occasionally more pure branches of maths) puzzles that I have ever read. It’s essentially a series of cleverly, and occasionally fiendishly put-together mathematics and physics challenge questions, each of which gets you thinking in a new and fascinating way."---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica"Reading Nahin is like reading through a select library of ancient Babylonian mathematical clay tablets. Surprises abound. . . . Nahin weaves much colorful history into his narrative."---Andrew Simoson, Mathematical Intelligencer"Engaging. . . . The book contains a wealth of original problems. . . . An enjoyable read."---Antonín Slavík, Zentralblatt MATH"This reviewer found himself being drawn to a variety of unfamiliar settings with much interest and even fascination." * Choice *"I certainly enjoyed [the book]!"---Alan Stevens, Mathematics Today"The potential audience for this book should be fairly large and go from highly talented high school students up through professionals in any STEM field."---Geoffrey Dietz, MAA Reviews
£15.29
Princeton University Press The EinsteinKleinGordon Coupled System
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£55.25
Princeton University Press The EinsteinKleinGordon Coupled System
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£124.00
Princeton University Press PDE Control of StringActuated Motion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[PDE Control of String-Actuated Motion] is what the metaphor applied mathematics is all about. In this field, there is often a gap between pretension and reality, a mismatch between mathematical rigor and engineering objectives. This book is a nice counterexample!"---Guenter Leugering, SIAM Review
£110.40
Princeton University Press PDE Control of StringActuated Motion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[PDE Control of String-Actuated Motion] is what the metaphor applied mathematics is all about. In this field, there is often a gap between pretension and reality, a mismatch between mathematical rigor and engineering objectives. This book is a nice counterexample!"---Guenter Leugering, SIAM Review
£49.30
Princeton University Press Patterns Predictions and Actions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thorough, very clearly written overview on the subject of machine learning for those with the prerequisite mathematical tools of calculus, linear algebra and probability."---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica"Valuable."---J. Brzezinski, Choice
£42.50
Princeton University Press The New Era in American Mathematics 19201950
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clearly the definitive treatment of the ascendancy of the American research mathematics community to international prominence during the first half of the twentieth century. As such, it will serve as the point of departure for anyone wanting to delve further into the mathematics being produced in the United States in this time period."---Calvin Jongsma, MAA Reviews"Karen Parshall masterfully examines the self-laudatory claim for ‘a new era’ that elite American mathematicians advanced as they secured leadership positions on the international stage. . . . The writing is elegant and at times gripping."---Jemma Lorenat, Isis
£36.00
Princeton University Press The Mathematical Radio
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£19.80
PRINCETON UNIV PR Encounters with Euclid
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£23.70
Princeton University Press Introduction to Nonlinear Control
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£60.00
Princeton University Press Moduli Stacks of Étale GModules and the
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£120.00
Princeton University Press Moduli Stacks of Étale GModules and the
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£59.50
Princeton University Press The Enjoyment of Math
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£15.29
Princeton University Press Games for Your Mind
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fascinating. . . . Part philosophy, part maths, part activity book; Games for Your Mind is an ingenious thing."---Amy Barrett, BBC Science Focus"Excellent."---Elizabeth Palmer, Christian Century"It’s a serious and at times technical book, specifically about logic puzzles, though beneath its concern with matters such as obversion and epistemic obligations it has an unexpected jauntiness."---Henry Hitchings, Times Literary Supplement"Jason Rosenhouse’s Games for Your Mind is an engaging popular mathematics book written to enlighten the reader on the mathematics and logic behind popular puzzles. . . .overall, the reviewer would recommend this book to all people who want a puzzling challenge. Although the puzzles towards the end of the book feel impossible, the thrill of that ‘ah!’ moment when you work through Rosenhouse’s solution is surely a high for any mathematician out there."---Holly A. J. Middleton-Spencer, London Mathematical Society
£18.00
Princeton University Press Platos Ghost
Book SynopsisTraces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in problem solving and theory to its interactions with physics, philosophy, theology, psychology, and ideas about real and artificial languages. This book is suitable for mathematicians and historians.Trade Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009""In Plato's Ghost, he has . . . present[ed] us with an ambitious and in many respects remarkable synthesis of the modern transformation of mathematics via structural and set-theoretic notions, together not only with its logic and philosophy but also with related developments in artificial languages and psychology. . . . I can certainly recommend Plato's Ghost highly as a rich resource and point of departure for readers who want to learn more about this exciting period in the development of modern mathematics."---Solomon Feferman, American Scientist"This accessible, rigorous volume belongs in every serious library."---J. McCleary, Choice"In a book aimed at the educated public, the author presents an impressive amount of data--both of the kind mathematicians with some awareness of the history of their subject may be aware of, and of an entirely different kind, coming from the outskirts of mathematics, from philosophy, from physics, or from the popularization of mathematics, which will likely be new even to historians of mathematics."---Victor V Pambuccian, Mathematical Reviews"It is . . . no small assertion to say that the book under review, Plato's Ghost, is [Gray's] most far-reaching and ambitious work to date. . . . [T]here is a wealth of valuable data here which, if not fully processed and pigeonholed, is at least tagged and cataloged in a helpful way. Plato's Ghost provides an insightful and informative resource for anyone doing mathematics today who has wondered how (and perhaps why) the subject has come to possess the features it has today. The book gives us a lot to think about, which is exactly what a good history should do."---Jeremy Avigad, Mathematical Intelligencer"In this book Jeremy Gray offers us the fruit of more than a decade reading and thinking about modernism in mathematics. He presents it, in very well written form, to a broad audience interested in mathematics, its history and philosophy."---Erhard Scholz, Metascience"What we have here . . . is an excellent and detailed survey of how modernism took root in mathematics. Plato's Ghost provides the launching pad for future ruminations on the modernist thesis."---Calvin Jongsma, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith"I commend Gray for writing an extraordinarily detailed and fascinating history of modernist mathematics, whose philosophical fruits remain ripe for the picking. The sections on geometry shine with clarity and convey the drama of modernism in a compelling and page-turning way. The treatments of less-studied actors are fascinating and promise to be of much use in incorporating their work into ongoing scholarship. The book could be fruitfully used as a supplement to a variety of courses in philosophy, including philosophy of mathematics and logic, history of analytic philosophy, and philosophy of science. It is a monument of scholarship and will reward careful study."---Andrew Arana, Philosophia Mathematica"In the course of this study Gray uncovers many new and unexpected things. . . . Gray's book offers a rich and . . . balanced account of how modernist ideas gradually gained inroads within pure mathematics."---David E. Rowe, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
£29.75
Princeton University Press The Mathematical Mechanic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A pleasure to read. . . . Newton himself would have been charmed by this book."---Steven G. Krantz, UMAP Journal"The Mathematical Mechanic documents novel ways of viewing physics as a method of understanding mathematics. Levi uses physical arguments as tools to conjecture about mathematical concepts before providing rigorous proofs. . . . The Mathematical Mechanic is an excellent display of creative, interdisciplinary problem-solving strategies. The author has explained complex concepts with simplicity, yet the mathematics is accurate." * Mathematics Teacher *"A most interesting book. . . . Many of the ideas in it could be used as motivational or illustrative examples to support the teaching of non-specialists, especially physicists and engineers. In conclusion--a thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking read."---Nigel Steele, London Mathematical Society Newsletter"The Mathematical Mechanic reverses the usual interaction of mathematics and physics. . . . Careful study of Levi's book may train readers to think of physical companions to mathematical problems. . . . Mathematicians will find The Mathematical Mechanic provides exercise in new ways of thinking. Instructors will find it contains material to supplement mathematics courses, helping physically-minded students approach mathematics and helping mathematically-minded students appreciate physics."---John D. Cook, MAA Reviews"Mark Levi reverses the old stereotype that math is merely a tool to aid physicists by showing that many questions in mathematics can be easily solved by interpreting them as physical problems. . . . Some sections of the book require readers to brush up on their calculus but Levi's clear explanations, witty footnotes, and fascinating insights make the extra effort painless." * SEED Magazine *"The book is chock-full of these seemingly magical physical thought experiments involving bicycle wheels, pistons, springs, soap films, pendulums, and electric circuits, with applications to geometry, maximization and minimization problems, inequalities, optics, integrals, and complex functions. . . . I highly recommend it to anyone who is (even slightly) interested in physics, and appreciates mathematical elegance and cleverness. It would make a great gift for almost anyone, whether a high school student or university professor, armchair physicist or professional mathematician."---Boris Yorgey, The Math Less Traveled"The Mathematical Mechanic is a pleasant surprise."---E. Kincanon, Choice
£14.39
Princeton University Press Totally Nonnegative Matrices
Book SynopsisPresents a study of the theory of totally nonnegative matrices, defined by the nonnegativity of subdeterminants. This title explores methodological background, historical highlights of key ideas, and specialized topics.Trade Review"This book is a very useful new reference on the subject of TN matrices and it will be of interest to researchers on matrix theory as well as to researchers of any field where total positivity has applications."---Juan Manuel Pefia, Mathematical Reviews
£38.25
Princeton University Press Optimization and Learning via Stochastic Gradient Search
£63.00
Princeton University Press What Determines an Algebraic Variety
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£49.60
Princeton University Press In Pursuit of Zeta3
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nahin’s style is entertaining, directly addressing his readers. . . . Highly recommended."---Adhemar Bultheel, MAA Reviews"This book will be both enjoyable and a rich source of useful as well as intriguing information to a wide range of readers."---Michael Th. Rassias, zbMATH Open"I thoroughly enjoyed this book!"---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica.org"N/A"---Andrew Simoson, The Mathematical Intelligencer
£16.19
Princeton University Press Validated Numerics A Short Introduction to
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of validated numerics, a field that combines the strengths of scientific computing and pure mathematics. This title features many examples, exercises, and computer labs using MATLAB/C++. It is suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.Trade Review"Beyond obvious practical value, this material offers students an excellent opportunity to revisit and rethink some crucial, fundamental college mathematics." * Choice *"[T]his little book is a very important supplement to existing books on validated numerics. It is a must for researchers working in this field."---G. Alefeld, Mathematical Reviews"The book contains a lot of exercises, various small programs written in MATLAB code, and four sections with numerous problems provided for experimenting on a computer. It is written at an elementary level corresponding to its aims. But it is also a pleasure for specialists to leaf through the book."---Gunter Mayer, Zentralblatt MATH"This book is an essential resource for those entering this fast-developing field, and it is also the ideal textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates needing an accessible introduction to the subject." * World Book Industry *
£32.30
Princeton University Press The Irrationals
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The insides of this book are as clever and compelling as the subtitle on the cover. Havil, a retired former master at Winchester College in England, where he taught math for decades, takes readers on a history of irrational numbers--numbers, like v2 or p, whose decimal expansion 'is neither finite nor recurring.' We start in ancient Greece with Pythagoras, whose thinking most likely helped to set the path toward the discovery of irrational numbers, and continue to the present day, pausing to ponder such questions as, 'Is the decimal expansion of an irrational number random?'"---Anna Kuchment, Scientific American"The Irrationals is a true mathematician's and historian's delight."---Robert Schaefer, New York Journal of Books"From its lively introduction straight through to a rousing finish this is a book which can be browsed for its collection of interesting facts or studied carefully by anyone with an interest in numbers and their history. . . . This is a wonderful book which should appeal to a broad audience. Its level of difficulty ranges nicely from ideas accessible to high school students to some very deep mathematics. Highly recommended!"---Richard Wilders, MAA Reviews"It is a book that can be warmly recommended to any mathematician or any reader who is generally interested in mathematics. One should be prepared to read some of the proofs. Skipping all the proofs would do injustice to the concept, leaving just a skinny skeleton, but skipping some of the most advanced ones is acceptable. The style, the well documented historical context and quotations mixed with references to modern situations make it a wonderful read."---A. Bultheel, European Mathematical Society"To follow the mathematical sections of the book, the reader should have at least a second-year undergraduate mathematical background, as the author does not shrink from providing some detailed arguments. However, the presentation of historical material is given in modern mathematical form. Many readers will encounter unfamiliar and surprising material in this field in which much remains to be explored."---E. J. Barbeau, Mathematical Reviews Clippings"This is a well-written book to which senior high school students who do not intend to study mathematics at university should be exposed in their last two years at school. The ideas are challenging and provocative, with numerous clear diagrams. The topics are presented with numerous examples, and unobtrusive humour which renders the exposition even more palatable. The book would be an ideal source of ideas in a mathematics course within a liberal arts college because it links not only with the historical source of mathematics problems, but also with some of the great ideas of philosophy."---A. G. Shannon, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics"Mathematicians and serious students of mathematics will find much to admire in this book. . . . Every mathematician and student of mathematics with appropriate background will find [it] to be a valuable resource."---Pamela Gorkin, Mathematical Intelligencer
£15.29
Princeton University Press Classical Probability in the Enlightenment New
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£25.50
Princeton University Press Intermittent Convex Integration for the 3D Euler
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£49.60
Princeton University Press Intermittent Convex Integration for the 3D Euler
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£110.40
Princeton University Press Statistical Thinking
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£84.00
Princeton University Press Instability and Nonuniqueness for the 2D Euler
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£110.40
Princeton University Press Instability and Nonuniqueness for the 2D Euler
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£49.60
Princeton University Press Calculus 2 Simplified Integration and Infinite
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£18.00
Princeton University Press The Man Who Saved Geometry The Multidimensional
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£21.25
Princeton University Press Discrete and Computational Geometry 2nd Edition
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£56.00
Princeton University Press The Doctrine of Triangles
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentiethThe Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understanding the heavens to a practical tool, used in fields such as surveying and navigation. In Europe, China, and America, trigonometry aided and was itself transformed by concurrent mathematical revolutions, as well as the rise of science and technology. Following its uses in mid-sixteenth-century Europe as the foot of the ladder to the stars and the mathematical helpmate of astronomy, trigonometry became a ubiquitous tool for modeling various phenomena, including animal populations and sound waves. In the late sixteenth century, trigonometry increasingly entered the physical world through the practical disciplines, and its societal reach expanded
£18.00
Princeton University Press Exponential Sums Hypergeometric Sheaves and
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£49.60
Princeton University Press Exponential Sums Hypergeometric Sheaves and
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£110.40
Princeton University Press Flows in Networks
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£29.75
Princeton University Press Lectures on the hCobordism Theorem
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£25.50
Princeton University Press Lectures on the hCobordism Theorem
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£68.40
Princeton University Press Étale Cohomology
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£35.70
Princeton University Press Étale Cohomology
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£120.00
Princeton University Press Statistics by Simulation
Book SynopsisAn accessible guide to understanding statistics using simulations, with examples from a range of scientific disciplinesReal-world challenges such as small sample sizes, skewed distributions of data, biased sampling designs, and more predictors than data points are pushing the limits of classical statistical analysis. This textbook provides a new tool for the statistical toolkit: data simulations. It shows that using simulation and data-generating models is an excellent way to validate statistical reasoning and to augment study design and statistical analysis with planning and visualization. Although data simulations are not new to professional statisticians, Statistics by Simulation makes the approach accessible to a broader audience, with examples from many fields. It introduces the reasoning behind data simulation and then shows how to apply it in planning experiments or observational studies, developing analytical workflows, deploying model diagnostics, and
£93.60
Princeton University Press Lectures on PseudoDifferential Operators
Book SynopsisThe theory of pseudo-differential operators (which originated as singular integral operators) was largely influenced by its application to function theory in one complex variable and regularity properties of solutions of elliptic partial differential equations. Given here is an exposition of some new classes of pseudo-differential operators relevanTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. iii*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter I. Homogeneous Distributions, pg. 7*Chapter II. Basic Estimates for Pseudo Differential Operators, pg. 31*Chapter III. Further Regularity Theorems and Composition of Operators, pg. 76*Chapter IV. Applications, pg. 104*Appendix, pg. 144*References, pg. 156
£27.00
