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From Terence Tao’s excellent blog, I learned about the upcoming Princeton Companion to Mathematics (PCM), a roughly 1000-page survey of and introduction to mathematics at the undergraduate level. It looks like the PCM editors have lined up a distinguished cast of mathematicians to write comprehensible articles covering all of mathematics. The editor-in-chief is Timothy Gowers, who like Tao is a Fields Medalist, and who has very recently started his own blog.

Gowers gives instructions for finding a large sample of articles that will appear in the book, but they are not completely transparent, so follow these:

1. Go here.
2. Use Username “Guest” and Password “PCM”.
3. Click on “Resources” in the sidebar.
4. Click on “Sample articles” in the sidebar.

You’ll find many interesting and highly readable articles in .pdf format.

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Tags: Mathematics, Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Terence Tao, Timothy Gowers

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