
99 Variations On A Proof
This book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwi...
View full detailsThis book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwi...
View full detailsIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the comput...
View full detailsToday complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind...
View full detailsEven small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely man...
View full detailsOur 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...
View full detailsThis is the ultimate master class in modern physics. World-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist Georg...
View full detailsLeonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and g...
View full detailsWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoreti...
View full detailsThis 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...
View full detailsWhat are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and tho...
View full detailsGod Created the Integers is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the ...
View full detailsMobius 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...
View full detailsThis book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, stand...
View full detailsWhat 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...
View full detailsIn 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...
View full detailsThe 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...
View full detailsNumber is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century...
View full detailsIs 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...
View full detailsWith 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...
View full detailsPart-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel wor...
View full detailsThe definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge the world. In 1859, Bernhar...
View full detailsIn The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering readers not a...
View full detailsIn the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first cour...
View full detailsWhy do we need Statistics? What do terms like 'dispersion', 'correlation', 'normal distribution' and 'significance' actually mean? How can I learn ...
View full detailsBoolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home ...
View full detailsThe complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are r...
View full detailsThey know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by math...
View full detailsKaren Olsson's stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings--Simone, a philosopher, mystic...
View full detailsThis is the complete guide to exploring the fascinating world of maths you were never told about at school. Stand-up comedian and mathematician Mat...
View full detailsGeorge Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, iPod, smartphone and almost ...
View full detailsMathematics is an indispensable tool for life. From the systems that underpin our newsfeeds, through to the data analysis that informs our health a...
View full detailsFrom imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining impossible things. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng dra...
View full detailsThis is a Mathematics textbook for primary five students in Singaporean schools. The lessons are in Mandarin Chinese and the book includes numerous...
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