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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.
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offers lively, readable, and appealing exposition on a wide range of mathematical topics.
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contains letters, book reviews and expositions of attractive areas of mathematics.
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Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers
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The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
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is a mathematical journal that aims at a conversational and scholarly tone.
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In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem
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Several museums aim at enhancing public understanding of mathematics:
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The journals listed below can be found in many university libraries.
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King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
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What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
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Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
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Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
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Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions
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Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
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My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos
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The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality
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Virtuelles Freiberger Museum für Mathematik und Kunst
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On introduction to mathematics for the general reader
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The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers
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Popular science
Recreational mathematics
mathematical
Keith Devlin
Rintu Nath
Martin Gardner
Ian Stewart
Charles Seife
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
ISBN
978-0-285-63594-4
Robert Kaplan
ISBN
978-0-19-514237-2
Rintu Nath
Moments in Mathematics
Department of Science and Technology (India)
ISBN
978-81-7480-224-8
the original
Rózsa Péter
Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions
Rucker, Rudy
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
Princeton, N.J.
Princeton University Press
ISBN
978-0-691-00172-2
Brian Clegg
Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable

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