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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	The Number Devil A Mathematical Adventure Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner; Translated by Michael Heim A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who...

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The Dancing Wu Li Masters

An Overview of the New Physics

Gary Zukav; Read by the author Macmillan Audio

Particle physics is a science that few of us really understand. Indeed, it can be an intimidating, confusing study. Or it can be, as it is in The Dancing Wu...

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Innumeracy

Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

John Allen Paulos; With a New Foreword by the Author Hill and Wang

Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated...

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	A History of Pi Petr Beckmann St. Martin's Griffin The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up...

Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	The Abacus The World's First Computing System: Where it Comes From, How it Works, and How to Use it to Perform Mathermatical Feats Great and Small Jesse Dilson St. Martin's Griffin The abacus is as useful and effecient a machine today as it was when it was first created centures ago. Whether you're an expert in the latest computer...

Trade Paperback : $13.99 Buy	The World's Most Famous Math Problem The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and Other Mathematical Mysteries written by Marilyn vos Savant St. Martin's Griffin June 23, 1993. A Princeton mathematician announces that he has unlocked, after thousands of unsuccessful attempts by others, the greatest mathematical riddle...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws Minutes from an Infinite Paradise Manfred Schroeder W. H. Freeman “As notable as the book’s broad sweep is the author’s good-natured, humorous presentation.”—Physics Today

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	How to Ace Calculus The Streetwise Guide Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass Times Books Written by three gifted—and funny—teachers, How to Ace Calculus provides humorous and readable explanations of the key topics of calculus without...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	How to Ace the Rest of Calculus The Streetwise Guide, Including Multi-Variable Calculus Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass Times Books The sequel to How to Ace Calculus, How to Ace the Rest of Calculus provides humorous and highly readable explanations of the key topics of second and third...

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The Kingdom of Infinite Number

A Field Guide

Bryan Bunch W. H. Freeman

Just as bird guides help watchers tell birds apart by their color, songs, and behavior, The Kingdom of Infinite Number is the perfect handbook for identifying...

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Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	What Shape is a Snow Flake? Magic Numbers in Nature Ian Stewart W. H. Freeman The stripes of a zebra...the complexities of a spider's web...the waves of the ocean...and the shape of a snowflake. These and other natural patterns have...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	What Are The Odds? Chance In Everyday Life Mike Orkin W. H. Freeman

Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	How to Think About Statistics Sixth Edition John L. Phillips Holt Paperbacks An easy, logical way to make sense of the numbers and data you encounter every day.

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Knot Book An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots Colin C. Adams Holt Paperbacks The Knot Book is the first book to make cutting-edge research in knot theory accessible to a non-specialist audience. Starting with the simplest knots, the...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Mathematics The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe Keith Devlin Holt Paperbacks To most people, mathematics means working with numbers. But as Keith Devlin shows in Mathematics: The Science of Patterns, this definition has been out of date...

Trade Paperback : $22.99 Buy	The Language of Mathematics Making the Invisible Visible Keith Devlin Holt Paperbacks "The great book of nature," said Galileo, "can be read only by those who know the language in which it was written. And this language is mathematics." In The...

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Imagining Numbers

(particularly the square root of minus fifteen)

Barry Mazur Picador

Barry Mazur invites lovers of poetry to make a leap into mathematics. Through discussions of the role of the imagination and imagery in both poetry and...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Riemann Hypothesis The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Karl Sabbagh Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Since 1859, when the shy German mathematician Bernhard Riemann wrote an eight-page article giving a possible answer to a problem that had tormented...

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The Mathematical Tourist

New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics

Ivars Peterson Holt Paperbacks

In the first edition of The Mathematical Tourist, renowned science journalist Ivars Peterson took readers on an unforgettable tour through the sometimes...

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Perfect Figures

The Lore of Numbers and How We Learned to Count

Bunny Crumpacker Thomas Dunne Books

An intoxicating trip through the history, the poetry, and the surprising secret meanings of numbers

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The Lady Tasting Tea

How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

David Salsburg Holt Paperbacks

An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that...

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The Parrot's Theorem

A Novel

Denis Guedj; Translated by Frank Wynne St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great...

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Hardcover : $14.95 Buy	Angles of Reflection A Memoir of Logic and a Mother's Love Joan L. Richards W. H. Freeman

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Feynman

By Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick First Second

Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents...

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