• The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics - Marcus du Sautoy
  The quest to bring advanced math to the masses continues with this engaging but quixotic treatise. The mystery in question is the Riemann Hypothesis, named for the hypochondriac German mathematician Bernard Reimann (1826-66), which ties together imaginary numbers, sine waves and prime numbers in a way that the world's greatest mathematicians have spent 144 years trying to prove. Oxford mathematician and BBC commentator du Sautoy does his best to explain the problem, but stumbles over the fact that the Riemann Hypothesis and its corollaries are just too hard for non-tenured readers to understand. He falls back on the staples of math popularizations by shifting the discussion to easier math concepts.
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  Note: Availble at Melb uni maths library: http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/X?SEARCH=music+of+the+primes&searchscope=30&SORT=D&searchType=X
• Beginning Topology (Brooks/Cole Series in Advanced Mathematics) by Sue Goodman
  With a nice balance of mathematical precision and accessibility, this text provides a broad introduction to the field of topology. Author Sue Goodman piques student curiosity and interest without losing necessary rigor so that they can appreciate the beauty and fun of mathematics. The text demonstrates that mathematics is an active and ever-changing field with many problems still unsolved, and students will see how the various areas of mathematics ? algebra, combinatorics, geometry, calculus, and differential equations ? interact with topology. Students learn some of the major ideas and results in the field, do explorations and fairly elementary proofs, and become aware of some recent questions.
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  Note: A good broad introduction into some topological applications (a good 'overview' of what topology encompasses too); the four-colour problem, fixed-point theorems, fundamental theorem of algebra and knots. Glosses over point-set, seems to cover the important stuff. Her personal website can be found h ...moreere: http://www.math.unc.edu/Faculty/seg/ She recommends a history of Topology here: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PrintHT/Topology_in_mathematics.html (I think Brian Davey also recommended this site)
• A Beautiful Mind's John Nash is less complex than the real one. - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
  Here's what's true in Ron Howard's movie A Beautiful Mind—or, at least, here's what corresponds to Sylvia Nasar's biography of the same name: The mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. attended graduate school at Princeton, where he was arrogant, childish, and brilliant. His doctoral thesis on the so-called "Nash equilibrium" revolutionized economics. Over time, he began to suffer delusions. He was hospitalized for paranoid schizophrenia, administered insulin shock therapy, and released...
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  Note: see also: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html and perhaps more interestingly: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Forbes_Nash&oldid=82692709
• Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Miscellaneous Reflections by Raymond Ayoub
  The anthology is a collection of articles contiguous to the humanities written by renowned mathematicians of the twentieth century. The articles cover a variety of topics that, for want of a better name, shall be referred to as humanistic. An important criterion, thereby limiting the choice, is that the articles should be accessible to the literate reader who may or may not have technical knowledge of mathematics. The articles span roughly a century in time and a wide range in subject. They are by mathematicians acknowledged by their peers as outstanding creators whose work has added richly to the discipline. Each article is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author and a brief indication of the content.
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  Note: Melbourne maths library got it (of course!): http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/XMusings+of+the+Masters+An+Anthology+of+Miscellaneous+Reflection&f=&searchscope=30&m=&l=&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D/XMusings+of+the+Masters+An+Anthology+of+Miscellaneous+Reflection&f=&searchscope=30&m=&l=&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D&SUBK ...moreEY=Musings%20of%20the%20Masters%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Miscellaneous%20Reflection/1%2C32000%2C32000%2CB/frameset&FF=XMusings+of+the+Masters+An+Anthology+of+Miscellaneous+Reflection&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C
• Optimnem Blog
  The Blog of Daniel Tammet. (wiki) Daniel Paul Tammet (born January 31, 1979) is a British autistic savant (though he has learnt how to manage social interaction) gifted with a facility for mathematics problems, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but Tammet is unique in how specific and detailed his mental imagery of numbers is. He claims that in his mind each number, up to 10,000, has its own unique shape and feel, and he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite and "see" results of calculations as landscapes in his mind.
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• Wisconsin Medical Society - Savant Profile, Daniel Tammet
  Exerpts from: The Boy With The Incredible Brain that was broadcast on Five on May 24, 2005 (also broadcast under the title "Brainman") Daniel Tammet first came to worldwide attention in March 2004 on international Pi Day (3/14, of course) when he recited, from memory, Pi to 22,514 decimal places. It took over five hours and set a new European record. The event, which Daniel named "Pi in the Sky", coincided with Einstein's birthday and took place in front of Einstein's blackboard at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, England. Daniel used that event to raise funds for the National Society for Epilepsy because it was after a series of childhood seizures that his extraordinary number and memory abilities began, aligning him with that rare circumsta
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