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A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists
Math has a reputation for being inaccessible ...
A fascinating new take on the world of Shakespeare. What's the connection between Shakespeare and maths? A lot, as it turns out!
Shakespeare grew ...
'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us ...
Why is -(-1) = 1?
Why do odd and even numbers alternate?
What's the point of algebra?
Is maths even real?
From imaginary numbers to ...
The defintive guide to mathemathical problem solving from one of the great teachers of the twentieth century
How to Solve It offers something unique- a ...
What are numbers? Where do they come from? Are there different kings of number? Why was Pythagoras fascinated by triangular and square numbers? Is there ...
How do you draw a heptagon? What about a heptakaidecagon? How do you fit circles perfectly into triangles? And around them? If the computer is ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly ...
Million Dollar Maths is an invaluable guide to the straightforward and outlandish mathematical strategies that can make you rich.
How can you turn $1000 into ...
Classic, charming and lavishly illustrated with over 400 diagrams and sketches, The Moscow Puzzles creates hours of entertainment for puzzlers of all abilities.
A non-stop ...
An authoritative, accessible and revisionist history of maths that reveals the vital contributions of mathematicians from across the world and of all genders
The protagonists ...
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this ...
An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until ...
We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that the value of this algebraic ...
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up ...