Volumes, the MoMath book club
Love mathematics and books? Looking for a stimulating and fun discussion? Volumes, the MoMath book club, is just the thing for you. This reading group is designed especially for those interested in mathematics and science and how they affect our lives. No prior math or science background is necessary.
Next up
A discussion of
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Featuring the author Francis Su
Hosted by Tim Chartier
Wednesday, March 1 at 7:00 pm ET
(online)
Join Distinguished Visiting Professor Tim Chartier and author Francis Su for an engaging discussion of Mathematics for Human Flourishing. Winner of the Mathematical Association of America’s 2021 Euler Book Prize, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is an inclusive vision of mathematics — its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award‑winning mathematician and educator weaves together parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires — such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love — and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human.
Would you like to register for free?
Order Mathematics of Human Flourishing from Additions, the shop at MoMath, and help support the premier math museum in North America while also scoring free registration to this engaging conversation with Tim Chartier and author Francis Su. Simply place your order online or stop by the shop to purchase in person, then email your receipt to additions@momath.org.
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Prior Volumes Selections:
- Mathematics, Magic and Mystery by Martin Gardner
- Get in the Game by Tim Chartier
- A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson
- How to Free Your Inner Mathematician by Susan D’Agostino
- The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
- Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky
- The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs
- The Calculus of Happiness by Oscar E. Fernandez
- The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- The Calculus of Friendship by Steven Strogatz
- The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson
- The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz
- Adventures of a Mathematician by S.M. Ulam
- The Humans by Matt Haig
- Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
- The Second Kind of Impossible by Paul Steinhardt
- Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz
- The Shape of a Life by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
- The Prime Number Conspiracy edited by Thomas Lin
- The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Dr. Eugenia Cheng
- How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
- HELLO WORLD: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
- When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt
- Pi of Life: The Hidden Happiness of Mathematics by Sunil Singh
- Here’s Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math by Alex Bellos
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
- Who Killed Professor X? by Thodoris Andriopoulos
- The Wild Numbers by Philibert Schogt
- Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez
- A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal
- Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature by Marcus du Sautoy
- The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
- Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
- The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- A Doubter’s Almanac by Ethan Canin
- Finding Zero by Amir Aczel
- The Mathematician’s Shiva: A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer
- Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence by Joseph Mazur
- Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
- Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So by Ian Stewart
- Pythagoras’ Revenge by Arturo Sangalli
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
- The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan
- The Silicon Jungle by Shumeet Baluja
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ozawa