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Publisher
Quanta Books
First published
2026
ISBN
978-0-374-62179-7
Hardcover, 128 pages; also available as an e-book and a digital audio edition. Distributed by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; on sale November 10, 2026. The UK edition, titled “Six Maths Essentials: How to Model the World”, came out two weeks earlier, on October 27, 2026, from Pelican (hardback, 96 pages, ISBN 978-0-241-82948-6; also an e-book and an audio download).
In Six Math Essentials, the renowned mathematician and Fields Medalist Terence Tao introduces readers to six central concepts that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the frontiers of what we know today and now help us make sense of our complex world. This slim, elegant volume explores numbers as the gateway to quantitative thinking; algebra as the gateway to abstraction; geometry as a way to calculate beyond what we can see; probability as a tool to navigate uncertainty with rigorous thinking; analysis as a means to tame the very large or the very small; and dynamics as the mathematics of change.
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