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How To Lie With Statistics ('93 Reissued Edition) (54 Edition) 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: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ballparking: Practical Math for Impractical Sports Questions by Aaron Santos Publisher Comments How fat would you need to be to completely block a hockey goal? How much weight could you lift if you were ant-sized? How hard would you have to hit a baseball to hit the Goodyear blimp? In this amusing and enlightening book of offbeat sports... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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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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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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The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Costie Ghyka Publisher Comments This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in discussions ranging from dissertations by Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes to examples of modern architecture and art. Other topics include the Golden Section... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings (Princeton Science Library) by Solomon W Golomb Publisher Comments "Those acquainted with polyominoes will snap up this volume. And if you haven't yet discovered the fascination of these tantalizing tiles, this is the book to introduce you to them . . . ."--Martin Gardner, author of The Ambidextrous... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where Mathematics Comes From : How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being (00 Edition) 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) List Price $29.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Cipers: And the Return of Dr. Matrix by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments Here is another collection drawn from Martin Gardner's 'Mathematical Games' column in Scientific American. Each chapter explores a different theme, for example fractals, surreal numbers, the sculptures of Berrocal, tiling the plane, Ramsey theory and... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - 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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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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Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci by Bulent Atalay Publisher Comments Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life by Robin Wilson Publisher Comments Just when we thought we knew everything aboutLewis Carroll, here comes a highly originalbiography that will appeal to Alice fanseverywhere. Fascinated by the inner life ofCharles Lutwidge Dodson, Robin Wilson, a Carroll scholar and a noted mathematics... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Discoveries: Numbers (Discoveries) by Denis Guedj Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Flatland/Sphereland by Edwin A Abbott Publisher Comments A perennial science-fiction classic and fascinating experiment in expanding our ways of thinking and experiencing the world.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos Publisher Comments Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, & Just about Everything Else by Amir D Aczel Publisher Comments In Chance, celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory—the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical applications.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tangram Puzzles: 500 Tricky Shapes to Confound & Astound/ Includes Deluxe Wood Tangrams by Chris Crawford Publisher Comments It's endless fun! Opening this beautiful 2-color, lie-flat hardcover spiral book is like unlocking a treasure chest filled with puzzles and creative activities. Begin by taking the seven high-quality wooden tans (NOT cheap and sharp plastic) out of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Spiral/comb
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