Curves for the Mathematically Curious - An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic by Julian Havil
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Category: Mathematics
Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical interest, and beauty. Each chapter gives an account of ...Show more
Fibonacci's Rabbits - And 49 Other Experiments That Revolutionised Mathematics by Adam Hart-Davis
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Category: Mathematics | Series: Great Experiments Ser.
The word mathematics comes from the Greek word mathema, meaning knowledge or learning. And indeed mathematics is at the heart of almost all processes and patterns that occur in the modern world, yet many still find the discipline hard to fathom. Fibonacci's Rabbits solves this problem in bite-sized 'hop ...Show more
Finding Fibonacci - The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin
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Category: Mathematics
A mathematician's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci, or the "Book of Calculation," introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world ...Show more
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
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Category: Mathematics
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.Praise for Infinite Powers:Simple, lucid, amusing, informative, and a pleasure to read. If you want to know where calculus came from, how it works, what it's good for, and where it's going next, ...Show more
Maths Squared (100 Concepts You Should Know) by Marianne Freiberger
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Category: Mathematics | Series: 100 Concepts You Should Know
For many of us, mathematics is a subject to be feared-a daunting world of schoolroom numbers and equations. Yet we often wish in everyday life that we could remember all those handy mathematical tools and tips that were once explained to us-Maths Squared provides the bite-sized solution. Everybody knows ...Show more
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor) by Hugh Barker
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Category: Mathematics
How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the best time to take out a loan? How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win 500,000? How can maths help you set up a successful tech start-up? What about proving the Goldbach Conjecture for $1 m ...Show more
Tales of Impossibility - The 2,000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity by David S. Richeson
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Category: Mathematics
A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematics Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straighte ...Show more
Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis; Brian Skyrms
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Category: Mathematics
A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statistics In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enab ...Show more
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 by Mircea Pitici (Editor)
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Category: Mathematics | Series: The\Best Writing on Mathematics Ser.
The year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 makes available to a wide ...Show more
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