* [:scroll:](transcendence-of-pi.pdf) [The Transcendence of pi](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/mathematics/transcendence-of-pi.pdf) by Steve Mayer
Programmers are used to counting boring things. Why not count something more interesting for a change? This paper covers a broad swatch of the topic of analysis of tiling, and related strategies.
* [:scroll:] [From Dominoes to Hexagons](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/mathematics/from-dominoes-to-hexagons.pdf) by Thurston
A paper on the generalization of tilings across different base planes.
* [:scroll:] [graph isomorphism and representation theory](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/mathematics/graph-isomorphism-and-representation-theory.pdf) by Daniel Litt
Programmers work with graphs often (file system, greplin, trees, "graph isomorphism problem" (who cares) ). But have you ever tried to construct a simpler building-block (basis) with which graphs could be built? Or at least a different building block to build the same old things.
This <10-pagepaperalsouses`𝔰𝔩₂(ℂ)`,asimplemathematicalobjectyouhaven’theardof,butwhichisanicelead-intoanareaofrealmathematics—reptheory—that(1)containsactualinsights(1a)thatyouaren’tusing(2)issimple(3)isn’tpretentious.
* [:scroll:] [Conway's ZIP proof](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/mathematics/conways-zip-proof.pdf) by George Francis and Jeffrey Weeks
This is a higher-level paper, but still a survey (so more readable). It ties together disparate areas like Platonic solids (A-D-E), Milnor’s exceptional fibre, and algebra.
It has pictures and you’ll get a better sense of what mathematics is like from skimming it.
* [:scroll:] [what is a young tableaux?](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/mathematics/what-is-a-young-tableau.pdf) by Alexander Yong
Young Tableau appear in many areas of mathematics. Beyond combinatoric problems, we also see them in representation theory, and the calculus of Grassmannians.
Another common topic is sorting "You do sorting all the time. Are there smart ways to organise sub-sorts?"
* [:scroll:] [Topology of Numbers](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/mathematics/topology-of-numbers--hatcher.pdf) by hatcher
Recently there have been some papers posted about tropical geometry of neural nets. Tropical is also said to be derived from CS. This is a good introduction.
