History & Philosophy
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Pi: A Biography of the World’s Most Mysterious Number
$21.95 Add to cartIn this delightful layperson’s introduction to one of math’s most interesting phenomena, Drs. Posamentier and Lehmann review pi’s history from prebiblical times to the 21st century, the many amusing a
- Author: Posamentier, Alfred S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633889084
- Language: English
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E: The Story of a Number
$18.95 Add to cartThe interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this inform
- Series: Princeton Science Library #41
- Author: Maor, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168482
- Language: English
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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
$21.00 Add to cartPulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.
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- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534993
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartThe 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 Gravity, for instance, or Einstein’s theory of relativity.- Author: Stewart, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0465085989
- Language: English
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A History of Pi
$17.99 Add to cartThe history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the
- Author: Beckmann, Petr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 15 1976
- ISBN10: 0312381859
- Language: English
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
$37.95 Add to cartThere is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire discipline
- Author: Clayton, Aubrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0231199945
- Language: English
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Is God a Mathematician?
$20.00 Add to cartBestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how–if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind–it can … [more below]
- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0743294068
- Language: English
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More Numbers Every Day: How Data, Stats, and Figures Control Our Lives and How to Set Ourselves Free
$28.00 Read moreYour personal number detox: learn how numbers have taken control of your life–and how to get it back.
How many hours of sleep did you get last week? How many steps did you walk today? How many frien- Author: Dahlen, Micael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0306830841
- Language: English
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Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem
$19.00 Add to cartxn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, …no solution
“I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” With these words, the seven- Author: Singh, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0385493622
- Language: English
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The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can’t Count on
$19.95 Add to cartAn 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 the nineteenth century that irra- Series: Princeton Science Library #135
- Author: Havil, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247668
- Language: English
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The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
$32.50 Add to cartOur universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing–no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space–
- Author: Suri, Manil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1324007036
- Language: English
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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1
$16.95 Add to cartToday complex numbers have such widespread practical use–from electrical engineering to aeronautics–that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and eni
- Series: Princeton Science Library #42
- Author: Nahin, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169241
- Language: English
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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
$17.95 Add to cartHow music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century
Music is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math- Author: Maor, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202966
- Language: English
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What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
$28.99 Add to cartFor more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Paperbacks
- Author: Courant, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0195105192
- Language: English
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
$26.95 Add to cartThere is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire discipline
- Author: Clayton, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0231199953
- Language: English
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Metamathematics: Foundations & Physicalization
$44.95 Add to cart“What is mathematics?” is a question that has been debated since antiquity. This book presents a groundbreaking and surprising answer to the question–showing through the concept of the physicalizatio… [more below]
- Author: Wolfram, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: December 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1579550762
- Language: English
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The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics
$35.00 Add to cartThe Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its ubiquity among plants, animals, and even the cosmos. This gorgeous book–with la… [more below]
- Author: Meisner, Gary B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 163106486X
- Language: English
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
$19.00 Add to cartPopular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. “Zero is really something”-Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipe- Author: Seife, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140296476
- Language: English
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Fibonacci’s Rabbits: Fifty Breakthroughs That Revolutionized Mathematics
$19.99 Add to cartThe word ‘mathematics’ comes from the Greek word mathema, meaning knowledge or learning. And indeed mathematics is at the heart of almost all processes and patterns that occur in the modern world. Ye
- Series: Great Experiments in Science
- Author: Hart-Davis, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1627951881
- Language: English
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Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
$26.00 Read moreThe quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of
- Series: Wooden Books
- Author: Lundy, Miranda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 409
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0802778135
- Language: English
