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Beautiful Math

The Surprisingly Simple Ideas behind the Digital Revolution in How We Live, Work, and Communicate

by Chris Bernhardt

ISBN: 9780262549776

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 17, 2024

From the bestselling author of Quantum Computing for Everyone, a concise, accessible, and elegant approach to mathematics that not only illustrates concepts but also conveys the surprising nature of the digital information age.

Leibniz on Binary

The Invention of Computer Arithmetic

by Lloyd Strickland and Harry R. Lewis

ISBN: 9780262544344

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 15, 2022

The first collection of Leibniz's key writings on the binary system, newly translated, with many previously unpublished in any language.

The Meaning of Proofs

Mathematics as Storytelling

by Gabriele Lolli

Translated by Bonnie McClellan-Broussard

Foreword by Matilde Marcolli

ISBN: 9780262544269

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 27, 2022

Why mathematics is not merely formulaic: an argument that to write a mathematical proof is tantamount to inventing a story.

The Polyhedrists

Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century

by Noam Andrews

ISBN: 9780262046640

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 3, 2022

A history of the relationship between art and geometry in the early modern period.

Formulations

Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

by Andrew Witt

ISBN: 9780262543002

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 11, 2022

An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century.

Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries

by Satyan Linus Devadoss and Matthew Harvey

ISBN: 9780262542753

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 24, 2021

Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown.

Sleight of Mind

75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy

by Matt Cook

ISBN: 9780262542296

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 3, 2021

Exploring more than seventy-five well-known paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences showing how reason and logic can dispel the illusion of contradiction.