Science, Mathematics & Technology

This book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwi...

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the comput...

Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind...

Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely man...

Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking...

This is the ultimate master class in modern physics. World-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist Georg...

Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and g...

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoreti...

This is the story of how humankind has come to its understanding of the bizarre world of symmetry - a subject of fundamental significance to the wa...

What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and tho...

God Created the Integers is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the ...

Mobius bagels, Euclid's flourless chocolate cake and apple pi - this is maths, but not as you know it. In How to Bake Pi, mathematical crusader and...

This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, stand...

What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequen...

In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in al...

The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. The three main branches of abstract math - topology, analysis, and algebra - turn out to be sur...

Number is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century...

Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and f...

With searching questions such as these, Andrew Hodges takes apart the numbers 1 to 9 and gathers up the pieces. Inspired by millenia of human attem...

Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel wor...

The definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge the world. In 1859, Bernhar...

In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering readers not a...

In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first cour...

Why do we need Statistics? What do terms like 'dispersion', 'correlation', 'normal distribution' and 'significance' actually mean? How can I learn ...

Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home ...

The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are r...

They know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by math...

Karen Olsson's stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings--Simone, a philosopher, mystic...

This is the complete guide to exploring the fascinating world of maths you were never told about at school. Stand-up comedian and mathematician Mat...

George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, iPod, smartphone and almost ...

Mathematics is an indispensable tool for life. From the systems that underpin our newsfeeds, through to the data analysis that informs our health a...

From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining impossible things. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng dra...

This is a Mathematics textbook for primary five students in Singaporean schools. The lessons are in Mandarin Chinese and the book includes numerous...