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Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An entertaining investigation of the numerical abilities of animals and our own appetite for arithmetic The philosopher Bertrand Russell once obse...
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Numbers: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$104.99$104.99 - $104.99Current price $104.99| /Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to wo...
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Sacred Geometry of the Starcut Diagram: The Genesis of Number, Proportion, and Cosmology
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /- Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations exploring the evolution and importance of the starcut diagram...
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Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a rep...
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Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Preface.- Choosing a Research Group: Pluses and Pitfalls.- Getting Started.- Setting Goals and Objections.- How to Think Like a Scientist.- Designi...
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicatin...
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Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Of Men and Numbers, first published in 1963, is a fascinating look at the lives and works of history's greatest mathematicians. Beginning with the ...
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Cómo Funciona El Mundo: Una GuÃa CientÃfica de Nuestro Pasado, Presente Y Futuro / How the World Really Works
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Un sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro. «Si te preocupa el futuro y te enfurece que no se esté hacie...
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The companion book to COURSERA(R)'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfi...
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) with ...
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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical...
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The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An illuminating, millennia-spanning history of the impact mathematics has had on the world, and the fascinating people who have mastered its inhere...
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The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /How the concept of proof has enabled the creation of mathematical knowledge The Story of Proof investigates the evolution of the concept of proof--...
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the wor...
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The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Quite possibly the best popular science book I've ever read" (Popular Science) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of ...
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General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The latest volume in the New York Times-bestselling physics series explains Einstein's masterpiece: the general theory of relativity He taught us c...
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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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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly rea...
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A theoretical physicist looks at THE SUN
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /AMDGThis book lays the foundation for a science, as opposed to technology, of the sun.After an introduction explaining how science, in the strict s...
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Elements of Mathematical Analysis: An Informal Introduction for Physics and Engineering Students
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book provides a comprehensive yet informal introduction to differentiating and integrating real functions with one variable. It also covers ba...
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The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A landmark of the intelligent design movement, The Design Inference revolutionized our understanding of how we detect intelligent causation. Origin...
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The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A landmark of the intelligent design movement, The Design Inference revolutionized our understanding of how we detect intelligent causation. Origin...
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Optimal Mass Transport on Euclidean Spaces
HardcoverOriginal price $64.99 - Original price $64.99Original price $64.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Optimal mass transport has emerged in the past three decades as an active field with wide-ranging connections to the calculus of variations, PDEs, ...
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A Brief History of Mathematics for Curious Minds
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /This book offers a short and accessible account of the history of mathematics, written for the intelligent layman to gain a better appreciation of ...
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