• More than 3,000 authoritative entries with clear and concise definitions
• Wide-ranging coverage of pure and applied mathematics and statistics
• Clearly illustrated with charts, diagrams, and graphs
• Appendices of useful tables and lists including areas and volumes, inequalities, Roman numerals, and Greek letters
• Includes mathematics of more general interest, such as fractals, game theory, and chaos theory
• Recommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Mathematics companion website

New to this edition

• Fully revised and updated content with new entries, e.g. Fermat point, involution, Marcus du Sautoy, and Mathemapedia
• Recommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Mathematics companion website
• Extra appendices: lists and tables of inequalities, moments of inertia, centres of mass, differential equations and their solutions, convergence tests for series, and Roman numerals
• Virtual thumb-tabs for quick reference

Readership: Students and teachers of mathematics at school and university level, and those in the related fields of statistics and economics.

Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson

Review(s) from previous edition

"the style encourages browsing and a desire to find out more about the topics discussed - Mathematica

"the depth of information provided is admirable" - New Scientist

Preface
Dictionary
Appendices
Table of Areas and Volumes
Table of Centres of Mass
Table of Moments of Inertia
Table of Derivatives
Table of Integrals
Table of Differential Equations and their Solutions
Table of Series
Table of Convergence Tests for Series
Table of Inequalities
Table of Trigonometric Formulae
Table of Symbols
Table of Greek Letters
Table of Roman numerals
Table of Fields Medal Winners