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what's the most fun / interesting math topic or book? cc:

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it's really gonna depend on your background but colin adams' "the knot book" is pretty neat: the whole thing is visual and there's a bunch of surprisingly hard stuff relevant to current research but the basic ideas are explainable with v little background

Knots are familiar objects. We use them to moor our boats, to wrap our packages, to tie our shoes. Yet the mathematical theory of knots quickly leads to deep results in topology and geometry. "The...

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

you may also enjoy jeffrey weeks' "the shape of space" which is an introduction to topology motivated by the question "what shape is the universe"

The Shape of Space (Textbooks in Mathematics)

Maintaining the standard of excellence set by the previous edition, this textbook covers the basic geometry of two- and three-dimensional spaces Written by a master expositor, leading researcher in...

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i have a bunch of other recs like this in a page on my blog although some of them require a lot more background than others

qchu.wordpress.com

Reading Recommendations

The following list is mostly intended for undergraduates. The recommendations here generally emphasize clarity of exposition over technical detail. Algebra and Number Theory Ash and Gross. Fearless…

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thank you will check them out today 😁

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