History & Philosophy
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$30.00 Add 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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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest
$30.00 Add to cartA “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them
Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Mono- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601289
- Language: English
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
$18.95 Add to cartFrom 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 world. In this revelatory work of science and social his
- Author: Vincent, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066148
- Language: English
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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
$19.99 Add to cartA hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures.
In Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about. His too- Author: Orlin, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316509043
- Language: English
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Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
$30.00 Add to cartThe next book from Ben Orlin, the popular math blogger and author of the underground bestseller Math With Bad Drawings.Change Is The Only Constant is an engaging and eloquent exploration of the inters
- Author: Orlin, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 08, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316509086
- Language: English
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The Math Book
$21.99 Add 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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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION
-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK
-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 006236359X
- Language: English
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The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
$18.99 Add to cartDelightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You’ll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!—Scientific American
Many people take math in high- Author: Strogatz, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 0544105850
- Language: English
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SAT Level Up! Math: 300+ Easy, Medium, and Hard Drill Questions for Scoring Success on the Digital SAT
$18.99 Add to cartAN SAT MATH WORKOUT TO HELP BUILD YOUR SKILLS AND BEAT THE TEST.
On the Digital SAT, you’ll encounter adaptive modules that either increase or decrease in difficulty depending on your performance.This- Series: College Test Preparation
- Author: The Princeton Review
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593516532
- Language: English
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The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
$32.50 Add 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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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History – Abridged Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald甁 (d
- Series: Princeton Classics #13
- Author: Khaldûn, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0691166285
- Language: English
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Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians
$27.95 Add 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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El Libro de Las Matem?ticas (the Math Book)
$27.99 Read 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
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$18.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06, 2016
- ISBN10: 0062363603
- Language: English
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The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
$16.95 Read moreWhile we may be familiar with some of science’s greatest equations, we may not know that each and every equation emerged not in “Eureka!” moments but in years of cultural developments and scientific k
- Author: Crease, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0393337936
- Language: English
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
$26.00 Add to cartThis exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Fre
- Author: Doxiadis, Apostolos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 05, 2009
- ISBN10: 1596914521
- Language: English
