History & Philosophy
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The Puzzle Universe: A History of Mathematics in 315 Puzzles
$24.95 Add to cartA renowned puzzle master and game inventor presents 315 new and traditional puzzles.
Longlisted, 2016 School Library Association Information Book Award 12+
“A great read for anyone interested in p
- Author: Moscovich, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: September 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0228101530
- Language: English
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The Rose of the World
$35.00 Add to cartCompleted in 1959, hidden from the Soviet secret police for twenty years, THE ROSE OF THE WORLD was first made public through excerpts in the magazine Novy Mir in 1989. THE ROSE OF THE WORLD is a uniq… [more below]
- Series: Library of Russian Philosophy
- Author: Andreev, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0940262835
- 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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Philosophy of History
$19.00 Add to cartHave you ever wondered how different worldviews have shaped history? How dominant religious or political groups have changed the way past events have been interpreted, written, and recorded? The great… [more below]
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0806530391
- 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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Nothing: A Philosophical History
$28.99 Add to cartAn entertaining history of the idea of nothing – including absences, omissions, and shadows – from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century
How can nothing cause something? The absence of something- Author: Sorensen, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0199742839
- 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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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
$30.00 Add to cartThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remar
- Author: Bhattacharya, Ananyo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324003995
- Language: English
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A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that ther- Author: Wilkinson, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250168597
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
$22.99 Add to cartProbing the life and work of Kurt G?del, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning–and brought him to the edge of madness.
Autho… [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldstein, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327604
- 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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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game – Updated Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that t- Author: Hodges, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 10 2014
- ISBN10: 069116472X
- Language: English
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
$17.99 Add to cartPart history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, D
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0393339289
- Language: English
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The End of History and the Last Man
$22.00 Add to cartEver since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. “Profoundly realistic and important…supremely timely… [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284550
- 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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Gödel’s Proof
$18.00 Add to cartAn accessible explanation of Kurt G?del’s groundbreaking work in mathematical logic
In 1931 Kurt G?del published his fundamental paper, “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica a- Author: Nagel, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0814758371
- Language: English
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
$32.00 Add to cartA theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey–found in “no other book” (Science)–to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: “If you want to know what’… [more below]
- Author: Strassler, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 154160329X
- Language: English
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History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThere are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold’s addition to Ox… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Arnold, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 019285352X
- 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
