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How To Lie With Statistics
April’s Book of the Month is How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff. Norton reissued this 1954 book in 1993, and this edition is available on Kindle. There is a 1991 Penguin edition and it has been translated into … Continuer la lecture
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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
March’s Book of the Month is: The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by Otto Neugebauer. Second edition published in 1957 by Brown University Press, now republished by Dover in 1969. Commentary adapted from the Amazon website, see this link for further … Continuer la lecture
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CultureMATH
March’s Site of the Month is: CultureMATH CultureMATH is a French language website dedicated to secondary mathematics teacher education. Published articles present mathematical ideas at several levels. The topics are often related to the curriculum, to present them more deeply. … Continuer la lecture
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Mathematical Etudes
February’s Site of the Month: Mathematical Etudes This is a Russian site, but has an English and a French version, use “en” or “fr” at the end of the URL. The site contains several 3D animated films that illustrate theorems … Continuer la lecture
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The Story of a Number
February’s Book of the Month is: The Story of a Number by Eli Manor. First published in 1993 and available in paperback in the Princeton Science Library. From the “Goodreads” website. See here for more details. “…. Geared to the … Continuer la lecture
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The Largest Known Primes
January’s Site of the Month: The Largest Known Primes – A Summary In January a new largest prime was found – with over 22 million digits. Cooper, Woltman, Kurowski and Blosser used GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) which is … Continuer la lecture
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Mathematics for the Million
January’s Book of the Month is Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers by Lancelot Hogben. First published in 1936 and reprinted many times. From the Prologue: “The customary way of writing a book about mathematics … Continuer la lecture
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Historical Topics for the Mathematics Classroom
December’s Book of the Month is Historical Topics for the Mathematics Classroom by J.K. Baumgart, D.E. Deal, B.R. Vogeli, A.E. Hallerberg, eds., published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. This book has a summary of the history of … Continuer la lecture
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Imaginary
December’s Site of the Month: IMAGINARY Imaginary is a site containing “vignette-like” short articles on modern mathematics for a general audience. It emanates from the Mathematics Research Centre at Oberwolfach, where groups of mathematicians meet to work on particular areas … Continuer la lecture
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Geometry and the Imagination
November’s Book of the Month is Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen. First published in 1952. The AMS website says: “This remarkable book has endured as a true masterpiece of mathematical exposition. … The book is overflowing with … Continuer la lecture
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