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Diana Gillooly
Executive Editor, Mathematics
数学类书单包括纯数学和应用数学;数学的历史、哲学和基础;以及数学与科学、艺术和社会的交叉学科类书籍。这些书以《数学年鉴》 (Annals of Mathematics Studies) 的深厚学术传统为基础,为丰富多样的数学知识体系做出了贡献。普林斯顿大学出版社的优势出版领域包括分析数学、几何、优化算法、复杂系统和数学数据科学。
该书单也重点强调了数学在各个学术领域的应用,尤其是自然科学和人文领域。这些书籍坚持注重质量、易于获取和非常规性的原则,反映和扩大了数学在社会中的核心作用
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Our innumerate democracy
The Declaration of Independence is a mathematical document. It starts by proclaiming certain truths to be self-evident and proceeds to list them. In math, such statements are the axioms of a theory.
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Radio then and now
When I was a kid, you could actually look inside a radio and see all sorts of neat stuff in there, like the amazing mechanical linkages of the tuning mechanism, or the mysterious, soft yellow glow of the vacuum tubes (the transistor hadn’t yet completely replaced tubes). The wonders of what I could see inside my parents’ 1947 AM/FM radio console hooked me.
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Pi is magic
Pi is magic. It is a number that is infinite, universal, transcendental, and irrational. It appears everywhere, and my mathematician friends tell me that Pi is as close to religion as you can get in math.
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Why prove it?
Years ago, a student in an introductory math class asked me: “Why do you prove everything; why don’t you just tell us?” Ever since, I have pondered that question.
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The challenge of popularizing mathematics
Of all the academic disciplines, mathematics is perhaps the most difficult to popularize. One must navigate a subject that is not always received with excitement by the general public.
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