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How to Ace Calculus

The Streetwise Guide

Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass Times Books

"This is a marvelous, user-friendly introduction to the basic ideas of calculus. It is effective, humorous and eminently practical. The book that 100,000 calculus students have been searching for is finally here."—Ron Graham, Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs, former President of the American Mathematical Society, and author of Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation of Computer Science

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 "Congratulations! You made it through the first term of calculus. Now the fun really begins. This wonderful book will take you on a fantastic journey."—Mikhail Chkhenkeli, Williams College

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Harmonograph A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music Wooden Books Anthony Ashton Walker & Company During the nineteenth century, a remarkable scientific instrument known as a harmonograph revealed the beautiful patterns found in music. Harmonograph is an...

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Proof

A Play

David Auburn Faber and Faber, Inc.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Auburn has taken on some biggies here: what the link may be between genius and mental instability, why it is that lives get stuck, and how elusive the truth can be . . . [Proof's] level of accomplishment and the realness of its characters show that Auburn has both depth and a voice."—The New Yorker

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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...

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The Birth of a New Science

James Case Hill and Wang

"James Case strikes at the heart of modern neoclassical analysis with this penetrating exploration of the reigning orthodoxy and the alternatives we need to consider. The implications for economic thought are startling. The implications for economic policy are stunning."—Louis Galambos, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University

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...

Hardcover : $25.00 Buy	The Man of Numbers Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution Keith Devlin Walker & Company In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India...

Trade Paperback : $31.99 Buy	The New Turing Omnibus Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science A. K. Dewdney Holt Paperbacks No other volume provides as broad, as thorough, or as accessible an introduction to the realm of computers as A. K. Dewdney's The Turing Omnibus. Updated...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture A Novel of Mathematical Obsession Apostolos Doxiadis Bloomsbury USA In the tradition of Fermat's Last Theorem and Einstein's Dreams, a novel about mathematical obsession. Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his...

Trade Paperback : $22.95 Buy	Logicomix An Epic Search for Truth Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna Bloomsbury USA An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This exceptional graphic novel recounts the...

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...

Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	The Music of Pythagoras How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path from Antiquity to Oute Kitty Ferguson Walker & Company The enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics,...

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When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish

And Other Speculations About This and That

Martin Gardner Hill and Wang

"If you're already addicted to Martin Gardner's plain prose, gentle, reasonable voice, exhaustive research and relentless logic, you will want to add this book to your collection . . . While [he] has always called himself 'strictly a journalist,' he should really be honored as one of this country's greatest cultural treasures."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

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The Parrot's Theorem

A Novel

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

"The Parrot's Theorem is a unique book, in that it is both a wonderful novel and the best short history of mathematics I have ever read. The author draws his characters with care, develops an intriguing plot, and on the way teaches the reader about mathematics and its history. This is one of the most satisfying books I have read in a long time."—Amir Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions Brian Hayes Hill and Wang Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today—a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by...

Hardcover : $10.00 Buy	Stonehenge Wooden Books Robin Heath Walker & Company Once part of a large culture of stone circles, Stonehenge—built around 3000 B.C. and developed over the next 1,500 years—is the most famous. The remains of a...

Hardcover : $25.00 Buy	Hidden Harmonies The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan Bloomsbury Press “…the authors succeed in explaining the arcane aspects of the subject, and they are diligent in situating the Pythagorean theorem within the historical rise of mathematics. That they revel in the subject is clear…”—The Wall Street Journal

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Sacred Number The Secret Quality of Quantities Wooden Books Miranda Lundy Walker & Company Numbers permeate every aspect of our lives; very little happens without a basic ability to manipulate the simple whole numbers we all take for granted....

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Sacred Geometry Wooden Books Miranda Lundy Walker & Company Geometry is one of a group of special sciences - Number, Music and Cosmology are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small...

Hardcover : $20.00 Buy	Quadrivium The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology Wooden Books Miranda Lundy Anthony Ashton Dr. Jason Martineau Daud Sutton John Martineau Walker & Company The quadrivium—the classical curriculum—comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	The Fractal Geometry of Nature Benoit B. Mandelbrot Times Books Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightening does not travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature's shapes differs in kind, not...

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The Math Dude's Quick and Dirty Guide to Algebra

Jason Marshall St. Martin's Griffin

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) Barry Mazur Picador "A clear, accessible, beautifully written introduction not only to imaginary numbers, but to the role of imagination in mathematics."—George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley