Mathematics - History
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Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
$18.99 Add to cartThe true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream.
When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying ma- Author: Bardoe, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0316278203
- Language: English
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The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical practice, ranging from the distant past to the present. Historian Jacqueline Stedall shows that mathema… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stedall, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199599688
- Language: English
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Journey Through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics
$40.00 Add to cartPraise for William Dunham s Journey Through Genius The GreatTheorems of Mathematics “Dunham deftly guides the reader throughthe verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questionsand proofs… [more below]
- Series: Wiley Science Editions
- Author: Dunham, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16 1991
- ISBN10: 0471500305
- Language: English
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When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
$18.95 Add to cartA mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve them
What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest?- Series: Princeton Science Library #114
- Author: Nahin, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691218765
- Language: English
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The Mathematical Experience
$18.99 Add to cartThis is the classic introduction for the educated lay reader to the richly diverse world of mathematics: its history, philosophy, principles, and personalities.
- Author: Davis, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0395929687
- Language: English
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Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History
$27.95 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various cultures
The pentagon and its close cousin, the pentagram, have inspired individuals for the last two and half millennia, from mathema- Author: Maor, Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0691201129
- Language: English
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Men of Mathematics
$24.00 Add to cartFrom one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.Men of Ma… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bell, E. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 15 1986
- ISBN10: 671628186
- Language: English
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Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers (Revised)
$41.99 Add to cartTaking only the most elementary knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben leads readers of this famous book through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus. His illuminating explanation is ad… [more below]
- Author: Hogben, Lancelot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 039331071X
- 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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What’s the Point of Math?
$19.99 Add to cartMath makes the world go around. An educational book that will give you surprising answers to everyday math challenges.
This book unpacks how math is an essential part of our everyday life in ways tha- Series: What’s the Point
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1465481737
- 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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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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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
