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The New Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators

by Alexander Soifer (Author), Branko Grünbaum (Foreword), Peter Johnson (Foreword), Format: Hardcover
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The New Mathematical Coloring Book (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition. A large part of the new edition “Ask what your computer can do for you,” presents the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey and works by Marijn Heule, Jaan Parts, Geoffrey Exoo, and Dan Ismailescu. TNMCB introduces new open problems and conjectures that will pave the way to the future keeping the book in the center of the field. TNMCB presents mathematics of coloring as an evolution of ideas, with biographies of their creators and historical setting of the world around them, and the world around us.
A new thing in the world at the time, TMCB I is now joined by a colossal sibling containing more than twice as much of what only Alexander Soifer can deliver: an interweaving of mathematics with history and biography, well-seasoned with controversy and opinion. –Peter D. Johnson, Jr.Auburn University
Like TMCB I, TMCB II is a unique combination of Mathematics, History, and Biography written by a skilled journalist who has been intimately involved with the story for the last half-century. …The nature of the subject makes much of the material accessible to students, but also of interest to working Mathematicians. … In addition to learning some wonderful Mathematics, students will learn to appreciate the influences of Paul Erdős, Ron Graham, and others.–Geoffrey ExooIndiana State University
The beautiful and unique Mathematical coloring book of Alexander Soifer is another case of “good mathematics”, containing a lot of similar examples (it is not by chance that Szemerédi’s Theorem story is included as well) and presenting mathematics as both a science and an art…–Peter MihókMathematical Reviews, MathSciNet
A postman came to the door with a copy of the masterpiece of the century. I thank you and the mathematics community should thank you for years to come. You have set a standard for writing about mathematics and mathematicians that will be hard to match.– Harold W. KuhnPrinceton University
I have never encountered a book of this kind. The best description of it I can give is that it is a mystery novel… I found it hard to stop reading before I finished (in two days) the whole text. Soifer engages the reader's attention not only mathematically, but emotionally and esthetically. May you enjoy the book as much as I did!– Branko GrünbaumUniversity of Washington
I am in absolute awe of your 2008 book.

–Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey

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  1. ISBN-10
    1071635964
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1071635964
  3. Edition
    Second Edition 2024
  4. Publisher
    Springer
  5. Publication date
    March 12, 2024
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.93 x 1.34 x 9.92 inches
  8. Print length
    889 pages
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“This very nicely presented book studies problems involving colored objects and the Ramsey theory. ... New open problems and conjectures are included and this will lead to further work on the theme of this book. This book is strongly recommended to all those who wish to learn more about mathematics, mathematicians, the process of investigation and the psychology of mathematical invention.” (S. Arumugam, zbMATH 1551.05001, 2025)

“Usually I save my opinion of the book for the end. For this book, I can’t wait: This is a Fantastic Book! Go buy it Now! ... This book has plenty of both. If you are interested in math, then this book will … . If you are interested in history of math, then this book will … . Any researcher in either mathematics or the history of mathematics … will find many interesting things they did not know.” (William Gasarch, SIGACT News, Vol. 55 (4), 2024)

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The New Mathematical Coloring Book (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition. A large part of the new edition “Ask what your computer can do for you,” presents the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey and works by Marijn Heule, Jaan Parts, Geoffrey Exoo, and Dan Ismailescu. TNMCB introduces new open problems and conjectures that will pave the way to the future keeping the book in the center of the field. TNMCB presents mathematics of coloring as an evolution of ideas, with biographies of their creators and historical setting of the world around them, and the world around us.
A new thing in the world at the time, TMCB I is now joined by a colossal sibling containing more than twice as much of what only Alexander Soifer can deliver: an interweaving of mathematics with history and biography, well-seasoned with controversy and opinion. –Peter D. Johnson, Jr.Auburn University
Like TMCB I, TMCB II is a unique combination of Mathematics, History, and Biography written by a skilled journalist who has been intimately involved with the story for the last half-century. …The nature of the subject makes much of the material accessible to students, but also of interest to working Mathematicians. … In addition to learning some wonderful Mathematics, students will learn to appreciate the influences of Paul Erdős, Ron Graham, and others.–Geoffrey ExooIndiana State University
The beautiful and unique Mathematical coloring book of Alexander Soifer is another case of “good mathematics”, containing a lot of similar examples (it is not by chance that Szemerédi’s Theorem story is included as well) and presenting mathematics as both a science and an art…–Peter MihókMathematical Reviews, MathSciNet
A postman came to the door with a copy of the masterpiece of the century. I thank you and the mathematics community should thank you for years to come. You have set a standard for writing about mathematics and mathematicians that will be hard to match.– Harold W. KuhnPrinceton University
I have never encountered a book of this kind. The best description of it I can give is that it is a mystery novel… I found it hard to stop reading before I finished (in two days) the whole text. Soifer engages the reader's attention not only mathematically, but emotionally and esthetically. May you enjoy the book as much as I did!– Branko GrünbaumUniversity of Washington

I am in absolute awe of your 2008 book.

–Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey

LEV Foundation

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 12, 2024
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Second Edition 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 889 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1071635964
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1071635964
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.93 x 1.34 x 9.92 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #4,043,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I was once born in Moscow. There I became an intellectual, earned a scientific degree. I then left in search of freedom, personal, political, and creative.

That freedom I found on the faraway shores of the United States. I am a university professor of mathematics and European cinema, and a writer.

I strive to make mathematics a genre of literature. I view math as an art (for otherwise I would be doing other arts). "The Mathematical Coloring Book" manifests my style the best. It conveys math through evolution of ideas, together with archivally researched lives of creators of the presented math, with thoughts on place of a scientist in a criminal dictatorship (Nazi Fermany and the like), philosophy of foundations, psychology of discovery, art, aesthetics, and poetry.

I hope you will enjoy reading my books as well as I enjoyed writing them...

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