Category - Mathematics
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Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics: Second Edition
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How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
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A History of Pi
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The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher mathematics. This bo...
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Q.E.D.: Beauty in Mathematical Proof
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The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help dete...
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Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a r...
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Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, nume...
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Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas
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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainhea...
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Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire...
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Adventures of a Mathematician / Edition 1
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The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics - Third Edition / Edition 3
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The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret
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A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Advertisements for the wildly popular game of Sudoku often feature the reassuring words, "no mathematical knowledge required." In fact, the only ...
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Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
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Euclid's Elements Book One with Questions for Discussion
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Power-Up: Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games
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The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
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Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek ...
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Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
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