Category - Mathematics
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The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives. “Kit Yates shows how our private and s...
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
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A Mathematician's Apology
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A Mathematician's Apology is the famous essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy. It concerns the aesthetics of mathematics with some personal ...
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (By a Square)
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /First published in 1884, Edwin A. Abbott's classic novella is many things: a biting social satire on Victorian society, an exhortation to literal...
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How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The year’s finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year’s finest mathematics writing from arou...
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An entertaining and illuminating collection of 100 surprising connections between math and the arts. At first glance, the worlds of math and the ...
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it. Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Grav...
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What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world—from technology to health care and beyond. Alm...
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestones, works of genius destined to last forever. N...
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Here's Looking at Euclid: From Counting Ants to Games of Chance - An Awe-Inspiring Journey Through the World of Numbers
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathem...
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics…Great reading for the intellectually curious,” (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of H...
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A Mathematician's Apology
PaperbackOriginal price $5.95 - Original price $5.95Original price $5.95$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /A Mathematician's Apology is the famous essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy. It concerns the aesthetics of mathematics with some personal ...
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math--focusing on questions, not answers Where do we learn math: From ...
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An Introduction to Probability: A Concise Exploration of Core Concepts
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /What is the probability you'll finish reading a long, perhaps tedious, book on probability? And if you do, what's the probability you'll retain muc...
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerSimilar in scope and premise to Numbers Don’t Lie and Wagnerism, Once Upon a Prime connects mathematics and fiction, en...
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A delightful global tour of how humans think and play, led by one of our finest mathematical storytellers." -- Ben Orlin, author of Math Games wit...
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning." --Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review "An absolute...
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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that ...
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The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Brilliant and entertaining mathematician Kit Yates illuminates seven mathematical concepts that shape our daily lives.From birthdays to birth rat...
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Math Without Numbers
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a v...
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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures. In Math with Bad Drawin...
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The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"A delightful book."—New York Times "I have studied with pleasure [this] new book…Beautiful examples…Illuminating. I am convinced that [Lieber's]...
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