# Interesting Articles and Must Read Papers in Math

Mathematics is beautiful and there is no place for ugly mathematics in this world. Mathematics originates from creativity and it develops with research papers. Research Papers aren’t only very detailed and tough to understand for a general student, but also interesting. Here, I have collected the list of some excellent and interesting math articles and interesting mathematics research papers which I have read and found very useful. All of these are easily available online. The main source of this list is ArXiv.org and the websites of respective professors.

If you know any other paper/article which you find extremely interesting and that is not listed here, then please do comment mentioning the article name and URL. Papers/articles are cited as paper-titles first, then http url and at last author-name.

## Interesting Math Articles

1. The Two Cultures of Mathematics
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf
Timothy Gowers
2. What is Good Mathematics?
http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/0702396
Terence Tao
3. Career Advice (A Collection of Some very good advices) http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/
Terence Tao
4. For Potential Students
http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/potentialstudents.html
Ravi Vakil
5. Advice to a Young Mathematician
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/gowers/gowers_VIII_6.pdf Princeton Companion to Mathematics
6. Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is wrong http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
Scott Aaronson
7. On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9404236
William Thurston
8. A Mathematician’s Lament
http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
Paul Lockhart
9. Truth as value of duty: Lessons of Mathematics http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4057
Yuri I Mannin
10. Mathematical Knowledge: Internal Social And Agricultural Aspects http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703427
Yuri I Mannin
11. The Cult of Genius
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-cult-of-genius
Julianne Dalcanton
12. Take it to the Limit
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/take-it-to-the-limit/
Opinionator on New York Times
13. How to Supervise a Ph.D.
http://ppss.ph.unimelb.edu.au/2520/node33.html
14. Essential Steps of Problem Solving
https://gauravtiwari.org/essential-steps/
Gaurav Tiwari
15. On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
Albert Einstein
16. Who can name the Bigger Number?
http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
Scott Aaronson
17. Division by Three
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605779v1
Doyle and Conway
18. Birds and Frogs
http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.pdf
Freeman Dyson
19. A Mathematical Theory of Communication
http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf
Shannon Day
20. Missed Opportunities
http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?verb=Display&version=1.0&service=UI&handle=euclid.bams/1183533964&page=record Freeman Dyson
21. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html
Eugene Wigner
22. On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/turing_oncomputablenumbers_1936.pdf Alan Turing
23. Funny Problems
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010133v1
Florentin Smarandache
24. Life and Work of the Mathemagician Srinivasa Ramanujan
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003184v1
K Srinivasa Rao
25. Why Everyone Should Know Number Theory?
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0210327v1
Minhyong Kim
26. Meta Math! The Quest for Omega
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404335v7
G J Chaitin
27. Vedic Mathematics
http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/math.GM/0611347
W B Vasantha Kandasamy & Florentin Smarandache
28. On Multiple Choice Questions in Mathematics
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/on-multiple-choice-questions-in-mathematics/ Terence Tao
29. Ramnujan Type 1/pi Approximation Formulas
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3139v1
Nikos Bagis
30. Collatz’s 3x+1 Problem and iterative maps on Interval
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608708
Wang Liang
31. Proof of Riemann Hypothesis
http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1929
Jinzhu Han
32. Solving Polynomial Equations from Complex Numbers
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5331v2
Ricardo S Vieira
33. Age of Einstein
https://www.casadasciencias.org/portfolio/ageofeinstein.pdf
Frank WK Firk
34. The Mysteries of Counting
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/counting
John Baez
35. Generalisation of Ramanujan Method of Approximating Root of an Equation http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5092v1
R K Muthumalai
36. How to Gamble if You are in Hurry?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1645v1
Ekhad, Georgiadis & Zeilberger
37. How to Survive a math class?
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs/courses/misc/study.pdf
Matthew Saltzman & Marie Coffin
38. Is life Improbable?
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/improbable.pdf
John Baez
39. Remarks on Expository Writing in Mathematics http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~r-ash/Remarks.pdf
Robert B Ash
40. Success in Mathematics
https://mathstat.slu.edu/resources/success-in-mathematics
Saint Louis University
41. Teaching and Learning Mathematics
http://www.k12.wa.us/research/pubdocs/pdf/MathBook.pdf
Mirror Link
Terry Bergeson
42. Helping your child learn Mathematics
https://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/math/math.pdf
US Department of Education
43. Engaging Students in Meaningful Mathematics Learning: Different Perspectives, Complementary Goals
http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME/article/viewFile/115/58
Michael T. Battista

Here are some more interesting Math Books/Items that you can try:

Preview Product Price
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics $94.53 Tessellations: Mathematics, Art, and Recreation (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series)$146.48
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020 (The Best Writing on Mathematics, 18) $24.95 Mathematical Recreations and Essays (Dover Recreational Math)$18.95
Mathemagics: A Magical Journey Through Advanced Mathematics - Connecting More Than 60 Magic Tricks... $38.00 The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes$50.17
The Master Book of Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math) $14.95 How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics$16.99
Mathematical Labyrinths. Pathfinding (Problem Solving In Mathematics And Beyond) $38.00 Concepts and Problems for Mathematical Competitors (Dover Books on Mathematics)$15.69
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks $17.39 The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems$28.49
X Games In Mathematics: Sports Training That Counts! (Problem Solving In Mathematics And Beyond) $38.00 The Shape of Space (Textbooks in Mathematics)$42.67
Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) $14.37 The Mathematics of Slots: Configurations, Combinations, Probabilities$30.49
Amusements in Mathematics $16.50 Exploring Geometry (Textbooks in Mathematics)$97.46
The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive (Problem... $28.00 Mathematics Entertainment For The Millions (Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond)$27.72
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 1: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics $35.90 The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 (The Best Writing on Mathematics, 10)$77.79
Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural World $46.95 Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion (Princeton Puzzlers)$18.95
The Language of Mathematics: Utilizing Math in Practice $42.83 Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems (Princeton Puzzlers)$16.10
Central European Olympiad, A: The Mathematical Duel (Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond) $38.00 The Mathematics of Lottery: Odds, Combinations, Systems$4.33
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes: Tactile Mathematics, Art and Craft for all to Explore,... \$28.71

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1. Interesting to see your name just above Albert Einstein :-)

• Wow!! I didn’t notice that. ;)