Princeton

Mathematics
2022
We welcome proposals for new books in the
mathematical sciences across the range of our
publishing. This includes books for curious
readers that demystify what it means to think
mathematically (or statistically) and that show
the richness and value of this perspective;
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NEW & FORTHCOMING

A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role

in various cultures

Pentagons and Pentagrams

The pentagon and its close cousin, the pentagram, have
inspired individuals for the last two and half millennia,
from mathematicians and philosophers to artists and nat-
uralists. Despite the pentagon’s wide-ranging history, no
single book has explored the important role of this shape
in various cultures, until now. Richly illustrated, Pentagons
and Pentagrams offers a sweeping view of the five-sided
polygon, revealing its intriguing geometric properties and
its essential influence on a variety of fields.

Traversing time, Eli Maor narrates vivid stories, both cele-

brated and unknown, about the pentagon and pentagram.
He discusses the early Pythagoreans, who ascribed to the
pentagon mythical attributes, adopted it as their emblem,
and figured out its construction with a straightedge and
“Eli Maor expertly weaves together compass. Maor looks at how a San Diego housewife
the mathematics, history, and cultural uncovered four previously unknown types of pentagonal
uses of pentagons and pentagrams— tilings, and how in 1982 a scientist’s discovery of fivefold
shapes that have fascinated us for symmetries in certain alloys caused an uproar in crystal-
more than two millennia. Beautifully lography and led to a Nobel Prize. Maor also discusses the
complemented by Eugen Jost’s pentagon’s impact on many buildings, from medieval for-
illustrations, this book delights and tresses to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Eugen Jost’s
informs.” superb illustrations provide sumptuous visual context,
—Ian Stewart, author of What’s and the book’s puzzles and mazes offer fun challenges for
the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes readers, with solutions given in an appendix.
Everyday Life
Eli Maor is a former professor of the history of mathe-
matics at Loyola University Chicago. His books include
the internationally acclaimed To Infinity and Beyond,
e: The Story of a Number, The Pythagorean Theorem: A
4,000-Year History, Music by the Numbers, and with Eugen
Jost, Beautiful Geometry (all Princeton). Eugen Jost is a
well-known Swiss artist whose work is strongly influenced
by mathematics.
August 2022. 168 pages. 19 color + 85 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691201122 $24.95 | £20.00 ebook 9780691238555

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 NEW & FORTHCOMING

An engrossing look at the history and importance of

a centuries-old but still unanswered math problem

In Pursuit of Zeta-3
For centuries, mathematicians the world over have
tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math
genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s and
came up short. The straightforward puzzle considers if
there exists a simple symbolic formula for the following:
1+(1/2)^3+(1/3)^3+(1/4)^3+. . . . But why is this issue—the
sum of the reciprocals of the positive integers cubed—so
important? With In Pursuit of Zeta-3, popular math writer
Paul Nahin investigates the history and significance of this
mathematical conundrum.

Drawing on detailed examples, historical anecdotes, and

even occasionally poetry, Nahin sheds light on the richness
of the nature of zeta-3. He shows its intimate connections
to the Riemann hypothesis, another mathematical mystery
“In this investigation of a mysterious that has stumped mathematicians for nearly two centuries.
unsolved problem in number theory, He looks at its links with Euler’s achievements and
Paul Nahin expertly interweaves explores the modern research area of Euler sums, where
intriguing historical background zeta-3 occurs frequently. An exact solution to the zeta-3
with the mathematics, providing question wouldn’t simply satisfy pure mathematical in-
many well-constructed exercises for terest: it would have critical ramifications for applications
readers to puzzle over. Whether one in physics and engineering, such as quantum electrody-
is a calculus student, an engineer, or namics. Challenge problems with detailed solutions and
simply a lover of mathematics, this MATLAB code are included at the end of each of the
book will provide many hours of self- book’s sections.
guided study and enjoyment.”
Detailing the trials and tribulations of mathematicians
—Jennifer Beineke, coeditor of The
who have approached one of the field’s great unsolved
Mathematics of Various Entertaining
riddles, In Pursuit of Zeta-3 will tantalize curious math
Subjects
enthusiasts everywhere.

Paul J. Nahin is the author of many popular math books,

including How to Fall Slower Than Gravity, Dr. Euler’s
Fabulous Formula, and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton).
He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the
University of New Hampshire and received the 2017
Chandler Davis Prize for Excellence in Expository Writing
in Mathematics. He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.
2021. 344 pages. 23 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691206073 $26.95 | £20.00 ebook 9780691227597

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NEW & FORTHCOMING

How to use math to improve performance and predict

outcomes in professional sports

Mathletics
Mathletics reveals the mathematical methods top coaches
and managers use to evaluate players and improve team
performance. This second edition features new data, new
players and teams, and new chapters on soccer, e-sports,
golf, volleyball, gambling Calcuttas, analysis of camera
data, Bayesian inference, ridge regression, and other
statistical techniques.

Wayne L. Winston is the John and Esther Reese Professor

of Decision Sciences at Indiana University’s Kelley School
of Business. Scott Nestler is associate teaching professor
at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of
Business. Konstantinos Pelechrinis is associate professor
at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and
Information.
February 2022. 608 pages. 197 line illus. 55 tables.
Paperback 9780691177625 $24.95 | £20.00 ebook 9780691189291

The year’s finest mathematical writing from around

the world

The Best Writing on Mathematics

2021
This annual anthology brings together the year’s finest
mathematics writing from around the world—and you
don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces col-
lected here. These essays—from leading names and fresh
new voices—delve into the history, philosophy, teaching,
and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights
into its nature, meaning, and practice, and taking readers
behind the scenes of today’s hottest mathematical debates.

Mircea Pitici teaches mathematics at Syracuse University

and has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.
March 2022. 320 pages. 16 color + 91 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691225708 $24.95 | £20.00
Hardback 9780691225715 $85.00 | £66.00 ebook 9780691225722

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 NEW & FORTHCOMING

An inviting, intuitive, and visual exploration of

differential geometry and forms

Visual Differential Geometry

and Forms
Visual Differential Geometry and Forms fulfills two principal
goals. In the first four acts, Tristan Needham puts the
geometry back into differential geometry. Using 235 hand-
drawn diagrams, Needham deploys Newton’s geometrical
methods to provide geometrical explanations of the classi-
cal results. In the fifth act, he offers the first undergraduate
introduction to differential forms that treats advanced
topics in an intuitive and geometrical manner.

Tristan Needham is professor of mathematics at the

University of San Francisco. He is the author of Visual
Complex Analysis.
2021. 584 pages. 235 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691203706 $45.00 | £35.00
Hardback 9780691203690 $125.00 | £98.00 ebook 9780691219899

A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential

mathematical books ever written

Encounters with Euclid

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads
of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 bce,
it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating
countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac
Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert
Einstein. Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this
incomparable mathematical masterpiece, taking readers
from its origins in the ancient world to its continuing
influence today.

Benjamin Wardhaugh is a historian of mathematics.

2021. 416 pages. 34 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691211695 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691219813
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NEW & FORTHCOMING

A photographic exploration of mathematicians’

chalkboards

Do Not Erase
“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of
patterns,” wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy.
In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents
remarkable examples of this idea through images of
mathematicians’ chalkboards. Wynne offers more than
one hundred stunning photographs of these chalkboards,
gathered from a diverse group of mathematicians around
the world. The photographs are accompanied by essays
from each mathematician, reflecting on their work and
processes. Together, pictures and words provide an illu-
minating meditation on the unique relationships among
mathematics, art, and creativity.

Jessica Wynne is associate professor of photography at

the Fashion Institute of Technology.
2021. 240 pages. 110 color illus.
Hardback 9780691199221 $35.00 | £28.00 ebook 9780691222820

A meticulously history on the development of American

mathematics in the three decades following World War I

The New Era in American

Mathematics, 1920–1950
As the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depres-
sion, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and
World War II, American mathematicians pursued their
research, positioned themselves collectively within Amer-
ican science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony.
How did they do it? The New Era in American Mathematics,
1920–1950 explores the institutional, financial, social, and
political forces that shaped and supported this community
in the first half of the twentieth century.

Karen Hunger Parshall is the Commonwealth Professor of

History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia.
February 2022. 640 pages. 38 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691235240 $49.95 | £40.00
Hardback 9780691197555 $130.00 | £100.00 ebook 9780691233819

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 NEW & FORTHCOMING

A new framework that draws on insights from ecology

for the design and analysis of long-duration robots

Robot Ecology
Robots are increasingly leaving the confines of laborato-
ries, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities, venturing
into agriculture and other settings where they must
operate in uncertain conditions over long timescales. This
multidisciplinary book draws on the principles of ecology
to show how robots can take full advantage of the environ-
ments they inhabit, including as sources of energy.

Magnus Egerstedt is the Stacey Nicholas Dean of

Engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering at the
University of California, Irvine.
2021. 360 pages. 101 b/w illus. 2 tables.
Hardback 9780691211688 $75.00 | £58.00 ebook 9780691230078

An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the

mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth

The Doctrine of Triangles

The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history
of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550
and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells
the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument
for understanding the heavens to a practical tool, used
in fields such as surveying and navigation. In Europe,
China, and America, trigonometry aided and was itself
transformed by concurrent mathematical revolutions, as
well as the rise of science and technology.

Glen Van Brummelen is dean of the faculty of natural

and applied sciences at Trinity Western University and a
historian of mathematics and astronomy.
2021. 392 pages. 122 b/w illus. 6 tables.
Hardback 9780691179414 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691219875

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TEXTBOOKS & REFERENCE

A comprehensive graduate-level textbook that takes

a fresh approach to complex analysis

A Course in Complex Analysis

A Course in Complex Analysis explores a central branch
of mathematical analysis, with broad applications in
mathematics and other fields such as physics and engi-
neering. Ideally designed for a year-long graduate course
on complex analysis and based on nearly twenty years
of classroom lectures, this modern and comprehensive
textbook is equally suited for independent study or as
a reference for more experienced scholars. Presenting a
wealth of material in a single volume, A Course in Complex
Analysis will be a valuable resource for students and work-
ing mathematicians.

Saeed Zakeri is professor of mathematics at Queens

College and the Graduate Center, City University of
New York.
2021. 448 pages. 77 color + 63 b/w illus. 2 tables.
Hardback 9780691207582 $65.00 | £50.00 ebook 9780691218502

A brand-new edition of the popular introductory

textbook that explores how computer hardware,
software, and networks work

Understanding the Digital World

In this updated edition of Understanding the Digital World,
Brian Kernighan explains how computer hardware, soft-
ware, and networks work. Topics include how computers
are built and how they compute; what programming is;
how the Internet and web operate; and how all of these af-
fect security, privacy, property, and other important social,
political, and economic issues. Understanding the Digital
World is a must-read for readers of all backgrounds who
want to know more about computers and communications.

Brian W. Kernighan is a professor in the Department of

Computer Science at Princeton University.
2021. 304 pages. 58 color + 60 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691219103 $29.95 | £25.00
Hardback 9780691219097 $125.00 | £98.00 ebook 9780691218960

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 TEXTBOOKS & REFERENCE

The Stata edition of the groundbreaking textbook on

data analysis and statistics for the social sciences

Quantitative Social Science

Quantitative analysis is an increasingly essential skill for
social science research, yet students in the social sciences
and related areas typically receive little training in it—or if
they do, they usually end up in statistics classes that offer
few insights into their field. This textbook is a practical
introduction to data analysis and statistics written espe-
cially for undergraduates and beginning graduate students
in the social sciences and allied fields, such as business,
economics, education, political science, psychology, sociol-
ogy, public policy, and data science.

Kosuke Imai is Professor of Government and of Statistics

at Harvard University. Lori D. Bougher is a senior research
specialist at the Data-Driven Social Science Initiative at
Princeton University.
2021. 472 pages. 79 color + 11 b/w illus. 49 tables.
Paperback 9780691191096 $49.95 | £40.00
Hardback 9780691191089 $95.00 | £74.00 ebook 9780691191294

A practical guide to data-intensive humanities research

using the Python programming language

Humanities Data Analysis

The use of quantitative methods in the humanities and
related social sciences has increased considerably in recent
years, allowing researchers to discover patterns in a vast
range of source materials. Despite this growth, there are
few resources addressed to students and scholars who wish
to take advantage of these powerful tools. Humanities Data
Analysis offers the first intermediate-level guide to quan-
titative data analysis for humanities students and scholars
using the Python programming language.

Folgert Karsdorp is a postdoctoral researcher at the

Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences. Mike Kestemont is assistant professor
of literature at the University of Antwerp. Allen Riddell
is assistant professor of information science at Indiana
University.
2021. 360 pages. 69 color + 12 b/w illus. 5 tables.
Hardback 9780691172361 $45.00 | £35.00 ebook 9780691200330

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TEXTBOOKS & REFERENCE

The essential introduction to the principles and

applications of feedback systems

Feedback Systems
This textbook covers the mathematics needed to model,
analyze, and design feedback systems. Now more user-
friendly than ever, this revised and expanded edition of
Feedback Systems is a one-volume resource for students
and researchers in mathematics and engineering. It has
applications across a range of disciplines that utilize feed-
back in physical, biological, information, and economic
systems.

Karl Johan Åström is senior professor of automatic control

at Lund University in Sweden. Richard M. Murray is the
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and
Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at the California
Institute of Technology.
2021. 528 pages. 290 b/w illus. 9 tables.
Hardback 9780691193984 $95.00 | £74.00 ebook 9780691213477

A comprehensive introduction to hybrid control systems

and design

Hybrid Feedback Control

In Hybrid Feedback Control, Ricardo Sanfelice presents a
self-contained introduction to hybrid control systems and
develops new tools for their analysis and design. Hybrid
behavior can occur in one or more subsystems of a feed-
back system, and Sanfelice offers a unified control theory
framework, filling an important gap in the control theory
literature. Relevant to dynamical systems theory, applied
mathematics, and computer science, Hybrid Feedback
Control will be useful to students and researchers working
on hybrid systems, cyber-physical systems, control, and
automation.

Ricardo G. Sanfelice is professor of electrical and

computer engineering at the University of California,
Santa Cruz.
2021. 424 pages. 78 b/w illus. 1 table.
Hardback 9780691180229 $75.00 | £58.00 ebook 9780691189536

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 PRINCETON STUDIES IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Statistical Inference via

Convex Optimization
Through an accessible analysis of fundamental problems
of hypothesis testing and signal recovery, Anatoli Juditsky
and Arkadi Nemirovski show how convex optimization
theory can be used to devise and analyze near-optimal
statistical inferences. Statistical Inference via Convex Optimi-
zation is an essential resource for optimization specialists
who are new to statistics and its applications, and for
data scientists who want to improve their optimization
methods.

Anatoli Juditsky is professor of applied mathematics and

chair of statistics and optimization at the Multidisciplinary
Institute in Artificial Intelligence at the Université Greno-
ble Alpes in France. Arkadi Nemirovski is the John Hunter
Chair and professor of industrial and systems engineering
at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
2020. 656 pages. 40 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691197296 $85.00 | £66.00 ebook 9780691200316

Delay-Adaptive Linear Control

Delay-Adaptive Linear Control develops adaptive predictor
feedback algorithms equipped with online estimators of
unknown delays and other parameters. This comprehen-
sive book solves adaptive delay compensation problems for
systems with single and multiple inputs/outputs, unknown
and distinct delays in different input channels, unknown
delay kernels, unknown plant parameters, unmeasurable
finite-dimensional plant states, and unmeasurable
infinite-dimensional actuator states. Delay-Adaptive Linear
Control offers powerful new tools for the control engineer
and the mathematician.

Yang Zhu is a postdoctoral researcher in control theory

and engineering at Tel Aviv University. Miroslav Krstic
is distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering at the University of California, San Diego,
where he also serves as senior associate vice chancellor for
research.
2020. 352 pages. 48 b/w illus. 16 tables.
Hardback 9780691202549 $85.00 | £66.00 ebook 9780691203317

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ANNALS OF MATHEMATICAL STUDIES

Supersingular p-adic L-functions,

Maass-Shimura Operators and
Waldspurger Formulas
This book develops a new theory of p-adic modular
forms on modular curves, extending Katz’s classical
theory to the supersingular locus. The main novelty is to
move to infinite level and extend coefficients to period
sheaves coming from relative p-adic Hodge theory. This
makes it possible to trivialize the Hodge bundle on the
infinite-level modular curve by a “canonical differential”
that restricts to the Katz canonical differential on the
ordinary Igusa tower.

Daniel J. Kriz is an instructor in pure mathematics and a

National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2021. 280 pages.
Paperback 9780691216461 $75.00 | £58.00
Hardback 9780691216478 $165.00 | £128.00 ebook 9780691225739

The Arithmetic of Polynomial

Dynamical Pairs
In The Arithmetic of Polynomial Dynamical Pairs, Charles
Favre and Thomas Gauthier present new mathematical
research in the field of arithmetic dynamics. Specifically,
the authors study one-dimensional algebraic families of
pairs given by a polynomial with a marked point. Combin-
ing tools from arithmetic geometry and holomorphic dy-
namics, they prove an “unlikely intersection” statement for
such pairs, thereby demonstrating strong rigidity features
for them. This is a reader-friendly invitation to a new and
exciting research area that brings together sophisticated
tools from many branches of mathematics.

Charles Favre is a CNRS senior researcher based at the

École Polytechnique in Paris. Thomas Gauthier is profes-
sor of mathematics at the Université Paris-Saclay.
June 2022. 252 pages. 18 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691235479 $75.00 | £58.00
Hardback 9780691235462 $165.00 | £128.00 ebook 9780691235486

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 ANNALS OF MATHEMATICAL STUDIES

The Einstein-Klein-Gordon
Coupled System
This book provides a definitive proof of global nonlinear
stability of Minkowski spacetime as a solution of the
Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations of general relativity.
Along the way, a novel robust analytical framework is
developed, which extends to more general matter models.
Alexandru Ionescu and Benoît Pausader prove global
regularity at an appropriate level of generality of the initial
data, and then prove several important asymptotic prop-
erties of the resulting spacetime, such as future geodesic
completeness, peeling estimates of the Riemann curvature
tensor, conservation laws for the ADM tensor, and Bondi
energy identities and inequalities.

Alexandru D. Ionescu is professor of mathematics at

Princeton University. Benoît Pausader is professor of
mathematics at Brown University.
March 2022. 308 pages.
Paperback 9780691233048 $75.00 | £58.00
Hardback 9780691233055 $165.00 | £128.00 ebook 9780691233031

Global Nonlinear Stability of

Schwarzschild Spacetime under
Polarized Perturbations
In this book, Sergiu Klainerman and Jérémie Szeftel take a
first important step toward solving the fundamental black
hole stability problem in general relativity by establishing
the stability of nonrotating black holes—or Schwarzschild
spacetimes—under so-called polarized perturbations.
Essential reading for mathematicians and physicists alike,
this book introduces a rich theoretical framework relevant
to situations such as the full setting of the Kerr stability
conjecture.

Sergiu Klainerman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathe-

matics at Princeton University. Jérémie Szeftel is a CNRS
senior researcher in mathematics at the Laboratoire
Jacques-Louis Lions of Sorbonne Université in Paris.
2020. 856 pages. 13 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691212425 $75.00 | £58.00
Hardback 9780691212432 $165.00 | £128.00 ebook 9780691218526

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The Structure of Groups

with a Quasiconvex Hierarchy
This monograph on the applications of cube complexes constitutes
a breakthrough in the fields of geometric group theory and
3-manifold topology. This book will interest graduate students and
researchers working in geometry, algebra, and topology.

Daniel T. Wise is James McGill Professor in the Department of

Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.
2021. 376 pages. 166 color illus.
Paperback 9780691170459 $75.00 | £58.00
Hardback 9780691170442 $165.00 | £128.00 ebook 9780691213507

A Course on Surgery Theory

A Course on Surgery Theory offers a modern look at this important
mathematical discipline and some of its applications. This book
explains some of the triumphs of surgery theory during the past
three decades, from both an algebraic and geometric point of view.

Stanley Chang is the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Math-

ematics at Wellesley College. Shmuel Weinberger is the Andrew
MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Chicago.
2021. 472 pages. 14 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691160498 $75.00 | £58.00
Hardback 9780691160481 $165.00 | £128.00 ebook 9780691200354

Annals of Mathematics Journal

Individual and Institutional Edited by Nicholas M. Katz, Sergiu Klainerman,
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Founded in 1884, this distinguished bimonthly journal of research

papers in mathematics is published by the Department of Mathe-
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Ten amazing curves selected by one of today’s most

important math writers

Curves for the Mathematically

Curious
Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a curated collec-
tion of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil
for their significance, mathematical interest, and beauty.
Each chapter gives an account of the history and defini-
tion of one curve, providing a glimpse into the elegant and
often surprising mathematics involved in its creation and
evolution. This book is a rigorous and enriching mathe-
matical experience for anyone interested in curves, and the
book is designed so that readers who choose can follow
the details with pencil and paper.

Julian Havil is a retired former master at Winchester

College, England, where he taught mathematics for more
than three decades.
2021. 280 pages. 125 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691206134 $19.95 | £14.99 ebook 9780691197784

An exploration of mathematical style through 99

different proofs of the same theorem

99 Variations on a Proof
This book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathe-
matics as both science and art. Each chapter solves an
otherwise unremarkable equation in distinct historical,
formal, and imaginative styles that range from Medieval,
Topological, and Doggerel to Chromatic, Electrostatic,
and Psychedelic. With a rare blend of humor and scholarly
aplomb, Ording weaves these variations into an accessible
and wide-ranging narrative that illustrates the flexibility
and creative potential of mathematics. Readers will gain
not only a bird’s-eye view of the discipline and its major
branches but also new insights into its historical, philo-
sophical, and cultural nuances.

Philip Ording is professor of mathematics at Sarah Law-

rence College.
2021. 272 pages. 1 color + 25 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691218977 $19.95 | £14.99 ebook 9780691185422

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An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you

how to think like a mathematical physicist

How to Fall Slower Than Gravity

Paul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through
straightforward mathematics. In this collection of twenty-six
intriguing problems, he explores how mathematical physicists
think. More than a puzzle book, this work will immerse you in the
delights of scientific history while honing your math skills.

Paul J. Nahin
2021. 320 pages. 62 b/w illus. 4 tables.
Paperback 9780691229171 $19.95 | £14.99 ebook 9780691185026

An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation

and its role in development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable

Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons

Heat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our world and
universe. The heat equation demystifies such processes, painting
a mathematical picture of the way heat diffuses through matter.
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons offers a fascinating glimpse into the
relationship between a formative equation and one of the most
important developments in the history of human communication.

Paul J. Nahin
May 2022. 232 pages. 37 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691207841 $17.95 | £14.99 ebook 9780691199948

A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems

of extremes and how to solve them

When Least Is Best

Paul Nahin shows how life often works at the extremes—with val-
ues becoming as small (or as large) as possible—and he considers
how mathematicians over the centuries have grappled with these
problems of minima and maxima.

Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the

University of New Hampshire.
Princeton Science Library
2021. 392 pages. 99 b/w illus.
Paperback 9780691218762 $18.95 | £14.99 ebook 9780691220383

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A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems

in mathematics

Tales of Impossibility
Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned
problems of antiquity. Featuring celebrated luminaries, little-known
mathematicians, and historical surprises, this book chronicles the
quest to understand some of mathematics’ greatest puzzles.

David S. Richeson is professor of mathematics and the John J. and

Ann Curley Faculty Chair in the Liberal Arts at Dickinson College.
2021. 456 pages. 163 b/w illus. 5 tables.
Paperback 9780691218724 $22.95 | £17.99 ebook 9780691194233

The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilization

The Discrete Charm of the Machine

Steiglitz traces the building of our digital world through the de-
velopment of the internet and artificial intelligence, and considers
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