The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a book, edited by Timothy Gowers with associate editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, and published in 2008 by Princeton University Press (ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2). It provides an extensive overview of mathematics, and is noted for the high caliber of the contributors. The book was a 2011 winner of the Euler Book Prize of the Mathematical Association of America, given annually to "an outstanding book about mathematics".
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