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Popular mathematics

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Notable works of popular mathematics
On zero On infinity On constants On complex numbers On the Riemann hypothesis On recently solved problems On classification of finite simple groups On higher dimensions Biographies
Magazines and journals
Audio and video
Museums
References

Popular mathematics is mathematical presentation aimed at a general audience.

Sometimes this is in the form of books which require no mathematical background and in other cases it is in the form of expository articles written by professional mathematicians to reach out to others working in different areas.

Notable works of popular mathematics

Some of the most prolific popularisers of mathematics include Keith Devlin, Martin Gardner and Ian Stewart. Titles by these three authors can be found on their respective pages.

On zero

{{cite book | author=Charles Seife | title=The Biography of a Dangerous Idea | publisher=Souvenir Press | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-285-63594-4}}
{{cite book | author=Robert Kaplan | title=The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero | publisher=Oxford | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-19-514237-2}}
{{cite book| author=Rintu Nath| title=Moments in Mathematics| url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/nmy2012/National_Mathematical_Year2012.htm| publisher=Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology (India)| isbn=978-81-7480-224-8| year=2013| deadurl=yes| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102045933/http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/nmy2012/National_Mathematical_Year2012.htm| archivedate=2015-11-02| df=}}{{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR|date=September 2015}}

On infinity

Rucker, Rudy (1982), Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-691-00172-2}}.
{{cite book | author=Brian Clegg | title=Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable | publisher=Constable and Robinson | year=2003 | isbn=978-1-84119-650-3}}
{{cite book | author=Robert Kaplan & Ellen Kaplan | title=The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers | publisher=Penguin | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-14-100886-8}}

On constants

{{cite book | author=Petr Beckmann | title=A History of Pi | publisher=Saint Martin's Press | year=1976 | isbn=978-0-312-38185-1}}
{{cite book | author=Eli Maor | title="e", The Story of a Number | publisher=Princeton | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-691-05854-2}}
{{cite book | author=Mario Livio | title=The Golden Ratio | publisher=Headline Review | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-7472-4988-7}}
{{cite book | author=Julian Havil | title=Gamma | publisher=Princeton | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-691-09983-5}}

On complex numbers

{{cite book | author=Paul J. Nahin|authorlink=Paul J. Nahin | title=An Imaginary Tale: The Story of | publisher=Princeton | year=1998 | isbn=978-0691027951}}
{{cite book | author=Paul J. Nahin|authorlink=Paul J. Nahin | title=Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula | publisher=Princeton | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-691-11822-2}}

On the Riemann hypothesis

{{cite book | author=John Derbyshire | title=Prime Obsession | publisher=Plume Books | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-452-28525-5}}
{{cite book |author=Marcus du Sautoy |title=The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics|year=2003|isbn=0-06-093558-8}}
{{cite book | author=Dan Rockmore | title=Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers| publisher=Vintage | year=2006 | isbn=0-375-72772-8}}
{{cite book | author=Karl Sabbagh | title=Dr Riemann's Zeros | publisher=Atlantic Books | year=2002 | isbn=1-84354-100-9}}

On recently solved problems

{{cite book | author=Robin J. Wilson | title=Four Colours Suffice | publisher=Penguin | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-14-100908-7}}
{{cite book | author=Simon Singh | title=Fermat's Last Theorem | publisher=Fourth Estate | year=2002 | isbn=1-84115-791-0}}
{{cite book | author=Donal O'Shea | title=The Poincaré Conjecture | publisher=Penguin | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-84614-012-9}}
{{cite book | author=George G. Szpiro | authorlink= George Szpiro | title=Kepler's Conjecture | publisher=Wiley | year=2003 | isbn=0-471-08601-0}}
{{cite book | author=George G. Szpiro | authorlink= George Szpiro | title=Poincaré's Prize | publisher= Dutton | year=2007}}

On classification of finite simple groups

{{cite book | author=Mario Livio | title=The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved | publisher=Souvenir Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-285-63743-6}}
{{cite book | author=Mark Ronan | title=Symmetry and the Monster | publisher=Oxford | year=2006 | isbn=0-19-280722-6}}

On higher dimensions

Rucker, Rudy (1984), The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Biographies

{{cite book | author=Paul Hoffman | title=The Man Who Loved Only Numbers | publisher=Fourth Estate | year=1998 | isbn=1-85702-811-2}}
{{cite book | author=Bruce Schechter | title=My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos | publisher=Simon & Schuster | year=2000 | isbn=0-684-85980-7 }}
{{cite book | author=Robert Kanigel | title=The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan | publisher=Washington Square Press | year=1991 | isbn=0-671-75061-5}}
{{cite book | author=Siobhan Roberts | title=King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry | publisher=Walker Books | year=2006 | isbn=0-887-84201-1}}

Magazines and journals

Popular science magazines such as New Scientist and Scientific American sometimes carry articles on mathematics.
Plus Magazine is a free online magazine run under the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge.

The journals listed below can be found in many university libraries.

American Mathematical Monthly is designed to be accessible to a wide audience.
The Mathematical Gazette contains letters, book reviews and expositions of attractive areas of mathematics.
Mathematics Magazine offers lively, readable, and appealing exposition on a wide range of mathematical topics.
The Mathematical Intelligencer is a mathematical journal that aims at a conversational and scholarly tone.
Notices of the AMS - Each issue contains one or two expository articles that describe current developments in mathematical research, written by professional mathematicians. The Notices also carries articles on the history of mathematics, mathematics education, and professional issues facing mathematicians, as well as reviews of books, plays, movies, and other artistic and cultural works involving mathematics.

Audio and video

Simon Singh's Fermat's Last Theorem is available in audio and there is also a Horizon television program.

Museums

Several museums aim at enhancing public understanding of mathematics:

In the United States:

Museum of Mathematics, New York, and its predecessor, the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science,

In Austria:

{{Interlanguage link multi|Haus der Mathematik|de}}, Wien

In Germany:

Arithmeum, Bonn
Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden
Mathematikum, Gießen
{{Interlanguage link multi|Experiminta|de}}, Frankfurt on Main
{{Interlanguage link multi|Virtuelles Freiberger Museum für Mathematik und Kunst|de}}, Freiberg
{{Interlanguage link multi|MiMa Mineralien- und Mathematikmuseum|de}}, Oberwolfach

In Italy

The Garden of Archimedes

References

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