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Sacred Geometry : Philosophy and Practice (82 Edition) by Robert Lawlor Publisher Comments The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension and the form of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret (Wooden Books) by Scott Olsen Publisher Comments A concise and useful handbook on the Golden Section also known as the Golden Ratio and Golden Mean. The Golden Section is a line segment divided into two parts, such that the ratio of the short portion to the longer portion is equal to the ratio of the... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Hardcover
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edwin A Abbott Publisher Comments Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction. Charmingly illustrated by author. Describes the journeys of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford Pickover Publisher Comments Math's infinite mysteries unfold in this new paperback edition of the bestselling The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, prolific... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe by Amir D. Aczel Publisher Comments René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity. One of the oustanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers by Charles Seife Publisher Comments From the author of Zero, comes this andquot;admirable salvo against quantitative bamboozlement by the media and the governmentandquot; (The Boston Globe) In Zero, Charles Seife presented readers with a thrilling account of the strangest number known to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being by John D Barrow Publisher Comments John D. Barrow's Pi in the Sky is a profound -- and profoundly different -- exploration of the world of mathematics: where it comes from, what it is, and where it's going to take us if we follow it to the limit in our search for the ultimate meaning of... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter Publisher Comments Douglas Hofstadters book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart Publisher Comments In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress. We often overlook the historical link between mathematics and... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio Publisher Comments Why does mathematics so perfectly explain the physical world -- and more than that, why does it so accurately predict the physical world?... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife From Powells.com It is difficult to imagine being scared of a number?or the absence of a number. Yet, as Charles Seife explains at the beginning of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, "for ancient peoples zero was a foreign — and frightening... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Mathematics: Supplement (08 Edition) by Craig Smorynski Publisher Comments This book attempts to fill two gaps which exist in the standard textbooks on the History of Mathematics. One is to provide students with material that could encourage more critical thinking. General textbooks, attempting to cover three thousand years of... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $42.00 Used - Hardcover
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math by Alex Bellos Publisher Comments Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Collected Works of A. M. Turing Vol. 2: Pure Mathematics by Alan Mathison Turing Publisher Comments What is maybe surprising about these papers is that although they were written decades ago, they address major issues which concern researchers today.... (read more) Your price: $246.50 New - Hardcover
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Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature by Marcus Du Sautoy Publisher Comments Symmetry is all around us. Of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world, this unique, pervasive phenomenon indicates a dynamic relationship between objects. Combining a rich historical narrative with his own personal journey as a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics by William Byers Publisher Comments "An amazing tour de force. Utterly new, utterly truthful."--Reuben Hersh, author of What Is Mathematics, Really? "Byers gives a compelling presentation of mathematical thinking where ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox, rather than being eliminated... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Quadrivium (Wooden Books) by Miranda Lundy Publisher Comments The quadrivium—the classical curriculum—comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician by Neal I Koblitz Publisher Comments Neal Koblitz is a co-inventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, and his autobiographical memoirs are collected in this volume. Besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography, Koblitz details his... (read more) List Price $67.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline Publisher Comments Erudite and entertaining overview follows development of mathematics from ancient Greeks to present. Topics include logic and mathematics, the fundamental concept, differential calculus, probability theory, much more. Exercises and problems.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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