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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
Staff Pick
Bertrand Russell hasn't been this entertaining since Bruce Duffy's 1987 novel The World As I Found It. Logicomix is an astoundingly entertaining graphic novel about the most unlikely of subjects: Bertrand Russell's struggle to find the logical foundation... (read more)

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Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition
by Sarah Turing
Staff Pick
This year marked the centenary of the birth of Alan Mathison Turing; among the many, many commemorative events that occurred during the Alan Turing Year were the reissues of two biographies of AMT. One was Andrew Hodges's extraordinary work Alan Turing... (read more)

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The Numerati
by Stephen Baker
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List Price $24.95
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Used - Hardcover

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