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Math Awareness Month

Posted by Zonk on from the two-plus-two dept.

An anonymous reader writes: April is Mathematics Awareness Month. Mathematics of the Cosmos is the 2005 theme: Mathematics is at the core of our attempts to understand the cosmos at every level: Riemannian geometry and topology furnish models of the universe, numerical simulations help us to understand large-scale dynamics, celestial mechanics provides a key to comprehending the solar system, and a wide variety of mathematical tools are needed for actual exploration of the space around us."

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  1. Re:Where to go from here? by rsilverman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some of my favorites:

    "Topics in Algebra" by Herstein

    "Topology" by Hocking and Young [Dover]

    "Counterexamples in Topology" by Steen & Seebach [Dover]

    "A Mathematical Introduction to Logic" by Enderton

    "Galois Theory" by Stewart