“Steven Strogatz, an award-winning professor, takes readers from the basics to the baffling in a 15-part series on mathematics. Beginning with a column on why numbers are helpful, he goes on to investigate topics including negative numbers, calculus and group theory, finishing with the mysteries of infinity.”
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/series/steven_strogatz_on_the_elements_of_math/index.html
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