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By: Francis Su
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Mathematics Association of America’s 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics–its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish… [more below]
- Author: Su, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0300258518
- Language: English
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By: Paul Nahin
In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Nahin, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247641
- Language: English
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By: Sarah Hart
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
$0.00HardcoverRead moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“An absolute joy to read!” –Steven Levitt, New York Times bestse
“Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” –Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review- Author: Hart, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250850886
- Language: English
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By: Michael Guillen
Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartA Publishers Weekly best book of 1995!
Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the science editor of ABC’s Good Morning America, tells the fascinating stories behind five mathematical equations.
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- Author: Guillen, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12, 1996
- ISBN10: 0786881879
- Language: English
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By: Eugenia Cheng
Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartOne 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 rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not re
- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601823
- Language: English
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By: DK
The Math Book
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartLearn about the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and movements in The Math Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy t- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0744079373
- Language: English
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By: Karl Sigmund
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
$32.50HardcoverAdd to cart“A mind-bending jaunt … that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts” (Publishers Weekly)
“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be phil- Author: Sigmund, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541602692
- Language: English
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Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians
$27.95HardcoverAdd to cartAn entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life ex
- Author: Posamentier, Alfred S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 1633885208
- Language: English
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By: DK
El Libro de Las Matem?ticas (the Math Book)
$27.99HardcoverRead moreGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Escrito en un lenguaje accesible, El libro de las matem?ticas presenta explicaciones claras y concisas que desbrozan la jerga especializada, diagramas que plasma- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 20, 2020
- ISBN10: 0744025664
- Language: Spanish







