Terence Tao: Just a brief announcement that I have been working with Quanta Books to publish a short book in popular mathematics entitled “Six Math Essentials“, which will cover six of the fundamental concepts in mathematics.

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alok-g 6 hours ago | parent [-]

From the brief description, this sounds to be quite basic. Looking forward to hearing if Terence has treated the explanations differently. :-)

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ngcc_hk 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Basic … that kind of word give me nightmare in my mind when you talked about maths … still remember a book called “elementary set theory” …

	▲	raegis 15 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The one math majors joke about is Serra’s A Course in Arithmetic, which is definitely not for young children.
	▲	esafak 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		My favorite example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Number_Theory
	▲	ecshafer 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I remember a joke along the lines of "elementary" meaning that someone somewhere has solved it before.

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hirvi74 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> this sounds to be quite basic.

It should be according to Tao's own comment at the bottom of the blog:

"This book is for a general audience, without necessarily having a college-level math education. It is aimed more at adults than at children, but some children with an interest in mathematics may be able to get something of it."

	▲	travisjungroth 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I just really liked that question and response.