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Here's Looking at Euclid: From Counting Ants to Games of Chance - An Awe-Inspiring Journey Through the World of Numbers
by Alex Bellos
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Real-Variable Methods in Harmonic Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Alberto Torchinsky
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Ballparking: Practical Math for Impractical Sports Questions
by Aaron Santos
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Mathematics for Everyman: From Simple Numbers to the Calculus
by Egmont Colerus
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Introduction to Vector and Tensor Analysis
by Robert C Wrede
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Imagining Numbers: Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen
by Barry Mazur
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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
by Charles Seife
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Splines and Variational Methods
by P M Prenter
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Nonlinear Functional Analysis
by Klaus Deimling
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How Long Is a Piece of String?: More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life
by Rob Eastaway
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The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by Karl Sabbagh
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