Mathematics
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Diana Gillooly
Executive Editor, Mathematics
The mathematics list encompasses pure and applied mathematics; the history, philosophy, and foundations of mathematics; and the intersection of mathematics with the sciences, the arts, and society. Grounded in the strong intellectual tradition of the Annals of Mathematics Studies, these books contribute to a large and diverse body of mathematical knowledge.
Areas of strength include analysis, geometry, optimization, complex systems, and mathematical data science. The list also highlights mathematics across scholarly disciplines, particularly within the natural sciences and the arts. Guided by a focus on quality, accessibility, and the unconventional, these books reflect and amplify the central role of mathematics in society.
New & Noteworthy
Edited by Victor J. Katz and Clemency Montelle
Featured Audiobooks
Series
Ideas
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The uneaten artichoke: Notes from a French village
If you鈥檙e truly devoted to observing plant patterns in nature, you learn that hunger can wait.
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Einstein in all formats
Eric Crahan, Editor in Chief for the Humanities and Social Sciences, reflects on the relationship between the scientific titan and PUP and how some of the technological changes of the last century have helped us steward his work.
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Ian Stewart on Reaching for the Extreme
Many of the deepest and most important areas of mathematics have emerged from questions about extremes鈥攖he shortest path between two points on a curved surface, the smallest area spanning a wire, or the fewest colors needed to make a map.
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脡tienne Ghys on The Football
脡tienne Ghys takes readers on an entertaining and fact-filled exploration of the mathematical secrets of the most popular spherical object on the planet. Discover why ballistics, friction, and air flow are key to scoring goals鈥攁nd why the football is a mathematical problem that engineers are still trying to solve.
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Pi Day with John Horton Conway, revisited
Over several years, while writing Genius at Play, my biography of the always wondrous yet often pernickety one-of-a-kind mathematician John Horton Conway, I was plied by my subject with a smorgasbord of tales.
Featured Authors
Textbooks
Landmark Titles
Edited by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, and Imre Leader
Edited by Nicholas J. Higham
