I have uploaded a new version of my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large] to archive.org.

The PDF of the new version is available immediately, and archive.org will re-generate the pages for the in-browser reader over the next few hours.

Changes:

• Improvements to several figures.
• Various small improvements to the text.
• Several minor corrections, including a number of reader-submitted ones.
• All end-of-line word hyphenations now follow the Oxford University Press standard. (The TeX/LaTeX #hyphenation algorithm does a good job, but is not perfect.)
• Many previously-bad page breaks have been adjusted.

#MathHist #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography

Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This book offers a history of beauty in mathematics and of the study of beauty in mathematics. Its intention is to examine the historical development of the...

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@ajcain

Wow. Very very impressive!

@the_roamer

Thank you!

‘Form & Number’ is still a ‘beta version’ and the content is still being polished, so comments and corrections are very welcome!

@ajcain This looks gorgeous. Is there a way to get a printed copy?

@alexanderdyas

Sorry, there is no official print version of ‘Form & Number’. But you are welcome to print it yourself. There is a variant PDF with a two-sided layout and hidden hyperlinks for printing [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_print].

Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Print) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This book offers a history of beauty in mathematics and of the study of beauty in mathematics. Its intention is to examine the historical development of the...

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