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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford A. Pickover Publisher Comments Maths infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this follow-up to the best-selling The Science Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover 
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio Publisher Comments Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio Publisher Comments Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - 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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Number Freak: From 1 to 200- The Hidden Language of Numbers Revealed by Derrick Niederman Publisher Comments A compulsively readable look at the secret language of numbers- their role in nature, movies, science, and everything in between. What do Fight Club, wallpaper patterns, George Balanchine's Serenade, and Italian superstitions have in common? They're all... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery Publisher Comments In January 1999, Sarah Flannery, a sports-loving teenager from Blarney in County Cork, Ireland, was awarded Ireland's Young Scientist of the Year for her extraordinary research and discoveries in Internet cryptography. The following day, her story began... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh Publisher Comments Compelling, dramatic, and entirely accessible, "Fermat's Enigma" is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery, and one that will forever change the reader's feelings about mathematics. Simon Singh co-produced an award-winning documentary film on... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - 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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos Publisher Comments With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the articles we read every day... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff Synopsis Mr. Huff's lively, human-interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic. . . . This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining and highly readable manner.Illustrator and author pool their... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Understand, Enjoy, and Draw Optical Illusions by Robert Ausbourne Publisher Comments In this compact and colorful book, Robert Ausborne (b 1947) presents a crystal-clear dissection of a variety of confounding optical illusions. His text and vivid illustrations explain how illustrations work and how you can make your own, using just basic... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet Publisher Comments One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty by K C Cole Publisher Comments Mathematics, that breathtaking invention of ours that reveals the tiniest particles of matter and takes us to the outermost reaches of the cosmos, is found by many people to be intimidating. In The Universe and the Teacup, K. C. Cole demystifies... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Numerati by Stephen Baker Publisher Comments Every day we produce loads of data about ourselves simply by living in the modern world: we click web pages, shop with credit cards, and make cell phone calls. Companies like Yahoo! and Google are harvesting an average of 2,500 details about each of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse by Jennifer Ouellette Publisher Comments Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman Publisher Comments Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math by Joseph Mazur Publisher Comments Like Douglas Hofstadter's G?del, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski's A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic?the one indispensable tool in man's quest to understand the world... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being by George Lakoff Publisher Comments This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathematics Comes... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 (Best Writing on Mathematics) by Mircea Pitici Publisher Comments This anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 makes available to a wide audience many... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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