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Mathematics
Interviews with mathematicians about their new books.
September 9, 2024
Literary Mathematics
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research re…
September 8, 2024
The Mathematics of Everyday Life
Today I talked to Al Posamentier about his books (co-authored with Christian Speitzer) The Mathematics of Everyday Life (Prometheus Books, 2018). We a…
September 2, 2024
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe
Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and conseque…
July 8, 2024
Dark Data
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand…
June 24, 2024
Cultures of Prediction
A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today's cultu…
June 19, 2024
Mapmatics
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 …
May 28, 2024
Tales of Impossibility
David S. Richeson's book Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2019…
May 10, 2024
All the Math You Missed
Graduate students in many programs besides mathematics will need to be familiar with the methods and results of a variety of mathematical topics. Just…
April 15, 2024
Symbols and Things
The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily …
February 1, 2024
Making Democracy Count
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 d…
August 28, 2023
The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought
Barbara M. Sattler's book The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics (Cambridge UP, 2020) examines …
August 25, 2023
Victorians and Numbers
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth …
July 4, 2023
The Outer Limits of Reason
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science…
June 9, 2023
Turing’s Vision
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the i…
June 7, 2023
Not Just for the Boys
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the sc…
April 19, 2023
Solving the Price Is Right
The Price is Right is television's longest-running game show. Since its inception in 1956, contestants have won cars, tropical vacations, diamond jewe…
April 16, 2023
Women Who Count
African-Americans and women are increasingly visible in professional mathematical institutions, organizations, and literature, expanding our mental mo…
April 14, 2023
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire and A Prime Number Conspiracy
On this episode of the MIT Press podcast, Thomas Lin, Editor-in-Chief of Quanta Magazine, discusses the research and current climate behind the scienc…
January 14, 2023
Game Theory and Behavior
Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrea Robbett's book Game Theory and Behavior (MIT Press, 2022) is an introduction to game theory that offers not only theoreti…
December 19, 2022
Seduced by Mathematics
Seduction is not just an end result, but a process -- and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which those end results are achieved…