Six Math Essentials (Terry Tao)

Terry Tao has a new book out today, from almost-as-new publishing house Quanta Books, which is aiming to publish books which both contain serious math and are authentically public-facing. I’ve read most of Six Math Essentials and it succeeds gloriously on both counts. It’s hard to write for a general audience about the kind of math professional mathematicians actually think about every day! (I mostly don’t do it in my own books.) Here’s the Amazon link if that’s how you buy books.

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