LearnOutLoud.com Audio - New Books in Mathematics Podcast

Grace Lindsay, "Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain" (Bloomsbury, 2021) (Thu, Mar 20, 2025)
Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024) (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023) (Thu, Dec 19, 2024)
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022) (Mon, Sep 09, 2024)
Al Posamentier and Christian Speitzer, “The Mathematics of Everyday Life” (Prometheus Books, 2018) (Sun, Sep 08, 2024)
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021) (Mon, Sep 02, 2024)
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020) (Mon, Jul 08, 2024)
Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024) (Mon, Jun 24, 2024)
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024) (Wed, Jun 19, 2024)
David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2019) (Tue, May 28, 2024)
Thomas A. Garrity, "All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge UP, 2021) (Fri, May 10, 2024)
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) (Mon, Apr 15, 2024)
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024) (Thu, Feb 01, 2024)
A Better Way to Buy Books (Tue, Sep 12, 2023)
Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020) (Mon, Aug 28, 2023)
Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022) (Fri, Aug 25, 2023)
Milo Beckman, "Math Without Numbers" (Dutton, 2020) (Thu, Aug 17, 2023)
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Mon, Jul 31, 2023)
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) (Wed, Jun 07, 2023)
Justin L. Bergner, "Solving the Price Is Right: How Mathematics Can Improve Your Decisions On and Off the Set of America's Celebrated Game Show" (Prometheus Books, 2023) (Wed, Apr 19, 2023)
Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019) (Sun, Apr 16, 2023)
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire and A Prime Number Conspiracy (Sat, Apr 15, 2023)
Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrea Robbett, "Game Theory and Behavior" (MIT Press, 2022) (Sat, Jan 14, 2023)
James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math (Mon, Dec 19, 2022)
John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022) (Sun, Dec 18, 2022)
Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022) (Wed, Nov 23, 2022)
Probability (Tue, Nov 22, 2022)
Alexandr Draganov, "Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners" (MIT Press, 2022) (Fri, Nov 11, 2022)
Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020) (Wed, Nov 09, 2022)
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022) (Wed, Nov 02, 2022)
John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022) (Mon, Oct 31, 2022)
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019) (Fri, Sep 23, 2022)
Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022) (Mon, Sep 12, 2022)
Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020) (Tue, Aug 23, 2022)
Brian Cafarella, "Community College Mathematics: Past, Present, and Future" (CRC Press, 2022) (Tue, Aug 23, 2022)
Joseph Mileti, "Modern Mathematical Logic" (Cambridge UP, 2022) (Mon, Aug 15, 2022)
Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021) (Tue, Aug 09, 2022)
Andrew Witt, "Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture" (MIT Press, 2022) (Fri, Jul 08, 2022)
Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021) (Thu, Jun 30, 2022)
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe" (Dey Street Books, 2022) (Wed, Jun 22, 2022)
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022) (Tue, Jun 21, 2022)
Nikita Braguinski, "Mathematical Music: From Antiquity to Music AI" (Focal Press, 2022) (Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
Mindy Capaldi, "Teaching Mathematics Through Games" (American Mathematical Society, 2021) (Tue, May 10, 2022)
Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021) (Wed, Apr 13, 2022)
Hilary Glasman-Deal, "Science Research Writing For Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" (World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2020) (Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021) (Wed, Mar 30, 2022)
Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021) (Mon, Mar 28, 2022)
N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022) (Wed, Mar 23, 2022)
Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021) (Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022) (Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021) (Wed, Mar 16, 2022)
Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020) (Fri, Mar 04, 2022)
Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021) (Wed, Feb 16, 2022)
Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021) (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
Brian Cafarella, "Breaking Barriers: Student Success in Community College Mathematics" (A K Peters, 2021) (Tue, Feb 01, 2022)
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021) (Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019) (Mon, Jan 17, 2022)
David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021) (Thu, Dec 30, 2021)
James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021) (Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021) (Fri, Nov 12, 2021)
Vicky Neale, "Why Study Mathematics?" (London Publishing Partnership, 2020) (Fri, Nov 05, 2021)
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021) (Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020) (Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
Alfred S. Posamentier, "Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers" (Prometheus Books, 2021) (Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
Rachel Steinig and Rodi Steinig, "Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education" (Natural Math, 2018) (Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020) (Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021) (Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021) (Fri, Aug 06, 2021)
James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020) (Fri, Jul 30, 2021)
James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021) (Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020) (Mon, May 31, 2021)
Dave Auckly, et al., "Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles" (AMS, 2019) (Tue, Apr 27, 2021)
Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021) (Fri, Apr 02, 2021)
Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020) (Thu, Apr 01, 2021)
J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020) (Mon, Jan 25, 2021)
Snezana Lawrence, "A New Year's Present from a Mathematician" (CRC Press, 2019) (Fri, Jan 08, 2021)
James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive" (World Scientific, 2020) (Mon, Dec 07, 2020)
Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) (Tue, Dec 01, 2020)
Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Joy of Geometry" (Prometheus, 2020) (Wed, Nov 11, 2020)
Susan D'Agostino, "How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020) (Tue, Sep 29, 2020)
Alfred Posamentier, "Mathematics Entertainment for the Millions" (World Scientific Publishing, 2020) (Wed, Sep 09, 2020)
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019) (Mon, Aug 24, 2020)
Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020) (Thu, Aug 13, 2020)
Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020) (Fri, Jul 10, 2020)
B. Fong and D. I. Spivak, "An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality" (Cambridge UP, 2019) (Wed, Jul 08, 2020)
Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks" (Custom House, 2020) (Thu, Jun 25, 2020)
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020) (Tue, Jun 02, 2020)
sarah-marie belcastro, "Discrete Mathematics with Ducks" (CRC Press, 2018) (Fri, May 29, 2020)
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019) (Tue, Apr 28, 2020)
Alex Berke, "Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math" (MIT Press, 2020) (Wed, Apr 22, 2020)
Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020) (Fri, Apr 03, 2020)
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020) (Mon, Mar 30, 2020)
Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020) (Tue, Mar 10, 2020)
Maureen T. Carroll and Elyn Rykken, "Geometry: The Line and the Circle" (MAA Press, 2018) (Wed, Feb 26, 2020)
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020) (Tue, Feb 25, 2020)
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020) (Thu, Jan 30, 2020)
Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball" (Princeton UP, 2019) (Wed, Jan 29, 2020)
Brian Clegg, "Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge" (Icon Books, 2019) (Tue, Jan 28, 2020)
David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019) (Fri, Dec 13, 2019)
Gary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics" (Race Point Press, 2018) (Fri, Nov 22, 2019)
Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Curious" (Princeton UP, 2019) (Fri, Nov 15, 2019)
Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing (Sun, Nov 03, 2019)
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019) (Thu, Oct 24, 2019)
David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) (Thu, Oct 17, 2019)
Alfred S. Posamentier, "Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math" (WSPC, 2019) (Mon, Sep 16, 2019)
Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century" (Birkhäuser, 2019) (Wed, Aug 28, 2019)
Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019) (Thu, May 02, 2019)
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing (Tue, Mar 19, 2019)
Kartik Hosanagar, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives" (Viking, 2019) (Tue, Mar 12, 2019)
Andrew C. A. Elliott, “Is That a Big Number?” (Oxford UP, 2018) (Fri, Nov 09, 2018)
Eli Maor, “Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg” (Princeton UP, 2018) (Wed, Jul 18, 2018)
Vicky Neale, “Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers” (Oxford UP, 2017) (Tue, Dec 12, 2017)
Alfred Posamentier et. al., “The Joy of Mathematics: Marvels, Novelties, and Neglected Gems That Are Rarely Taught in Math Class” (Prometheus Books, 2017) (Mon, Oct 16, 2017)
Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017) (Tue, Sep 19, 2017)
Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017) (Thu, Jun 29, 2017)
Oscar Fernandez, “The Calculus of Happiness” (Princeton UP, 2017) (Sun, Jun 11, 2017)
David Danks, “Unifying the Mind: Cognitive Representations as Graphical Models” (MIT Press, 2014) (Mon, May 15, 2017)
Raffi Grinberg, “The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs” (Princeton UP, 2017) (Wed, Feb 15, 2017)
Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016) (Mon, Jan 23, 2017)
Brian Clegg, “Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World (St. Martin’s Press, 2016) (Wed, Jan 04, 2017)
Ian Stewart, “Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe” (Basic Books, 2016) (Thu, Dec 29, 2016)
Alfred Posamentier and Stephen Krulik, “Effective Techniques to Motivate Mathematics Instruction” (Routledge, 2016) (Sat, Oct 01, 2016)
Alfred S. Posamentier and Robert Geretschlager, “The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration Beyond the Line” (Prometheus Books, 2016) (Sun, Sep 11, 2016)
Beineke and Rosenhouse, eds., “The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math” (Princeton UP, 2015) (Mon, May 23, 2016)
Adam Kucharski, “The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling” (Basic Books, 2016) (Thu, Mar 31, 2016)
James D. Stein, “L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels” (Princeton UP, 2016) (Wed, Feb 24, 2016)
Lynn Gamwell, “Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History” (Princeton UP, 2015) (Tue, Jan 05, 2016)
Brian Clegg, “How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? The Ultimate Science Quiz Book” (Icon Books, 2015) (Mon, Dec 07, 2015)
Dan Bouk, “How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) (Mon, Nov 23, 2015)
John Allen Paulos, “A Numerate Life” (Prometheus Books, 2015) (Thu, Nov 12, 2015)
Arthur Benjamin, “The Magic of Math” (Basic Book, 2015) (Wed, Sep 30, 2015)
Margaret Morrison, “Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations” (Oxford UP, 2015) (Wed, Jul 15, 2015)
Christopher J. Phillips, “The New Math: A Political History” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) (Thu, Mar 26, 2015)
Colin Adams, “Zombies and Calculus” (Princeton UP, 2014) (Wed, Oct 15, 2014)
Jordan Ellenberg, “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” (Penguin Press, 2014) (Tue, Jul 08, 2014)
Sue VanHattum, “Playing with Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and Passionate Teachers” (Natural Math, 2015) (Thu, Jun 26, 2014)
Al Cuoco and Joe Rotman, “Learning Modern Algebra: From Early Attempts to Prove Fermat’s Last Theorem” (MAA, 2013) (Fri, Jun 20, 2014)
David Reimer, “Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2014) (Mon, Jun 09, 2014)
Peter Gardenfors, “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces” (MIT Press, 2014) (Mon, Jun 09, 2014)
Oscar E. Fernandez, “Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us (Princeton UP, 2014) (Thu, Apr 17, 2014)
Michael Strevens, “Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure” (Harvard UP, 2013) (Tue, Apr 15, 2014)
Tim Chartier, “Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing” (Princeton UP, 2014) (Tue, Apr 08, 2014)
Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014) (Fri, Feb 14, 2014)
Eli Maor and Eugen Jost, “Beautiful Geometry” (Princeton UP, 2014) (Tue, Feb 11, 2014)
Edward Frenkel, “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality” (Basic Books, 2013) (Fri, Nov 08, 2013)
Colm Mulcahy, “Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects” (A K Peters, 2013) (Thu, Sep 26, 2013)
Brian Clegg, “Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe” (Icon Books, 2013) (Tue, Jun 04, 2013)
Leonard Wapner, “Unexpected Expectations: The Curiosities of a Mathematical Crystal Ball” (A.K. Peters, 2012) (Mon, May 06, 2013)
Lance Fortnow, “The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible” (Princeton UP, 2013)) (Tue, Apr 02, 2013)
Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, “Math on Trial” (Basic Books, 2013) (Wed, Mar 13, 2013)
Catherine Jami, “The Emperor’s New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)” (Oxford UP, 2012) (Fri, Oct 19, 2012)
Roger Hart, “The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011) (Fri, Jul 27, 2012)