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Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /One of the most important—and beautiful—mathematical solutions ever devised, Noether’s theorem touches on every aspect of physics. "In the judgme...
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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematic...
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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematic...
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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematic...
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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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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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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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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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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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Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$96.99$96.99 - $96.99Current price $96.99| /Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the a...
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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
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 sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under ...
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology One of The New Yorker and Economist’s Best Books of the Year “Quietly ...
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The Philosophy of Science: A Companion
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists. It mainly developed as a field in its own right during the tw...
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Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity ...
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With ...
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory neede...
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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elemen...
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figur...
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“Oh, what a delightful book! This is the clearest explanation of relativity available—and the most fun. It’s great to have it available again. Wh...
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the ...
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