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by Donal O'Shea  Publisher Comments “O'Shea tells the fascinating story of this mathematical mystery and its solution by the eccentric Mr. Perelman.”—Wall Street Journal In 1904, Henri Poincaré, a giant among mathematicians who transformed the fledging area of... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $0.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miranda Lundy Publisher Comments Geometry is one of a group of special sciences - Number, Music and Cosmology are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small volume, Miranda Lundy presents a unique introduction to this most ancient and timeless of... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tobias Dantzig Publisher Comments Number is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century. Tobias Dantzig shows that the development of math (from the invention of counting to the discovery of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Nasar
Publisher Comments How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Singh Publisher Comments xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerry Bobrow Publisher Comments CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you're brushing up on pre-Algebra concepts or on your way... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Seiter Publisher Comments Maybe you thought that after you graduated -- whether from high school, college, or even grad school -- you'd never have to do a math problem again. Then you went to work or had to manage the family finances and discovered that every day brings with it... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lloyd R Jaisingh Publisher Comments Statistics for the Utterly Confused, Second Edition When it comes to understanding statistics, even good students can be confused. Perfect for students in any introductory non-calculus-based statistics course, and equally useful to professionals working... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Jeffrey Synopsis Since its original publication in 1969, Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists has built a solid foundation in mathematics for legions of undergraduate science and engineering students. It continues to do so, but as the influence of computers has grown... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Derbyshire Publisher Comments For curious nonmathematicians and armchair algebra buffs, John Derbyshire discovers the story behind the formulae, roots, and radicals. As he did so masterfully in Prime Obsession, Derbyshire brings the evolution of mathematical thinking to dramatic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Tammet Publisher Comments Born on a Blue Day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by the owner himself. Daniel Tammet is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Priya Hemenway Publisher Comments The number Phi, simply defined, is one plus the square root of five, all divided by two. But its myriad occurrences in art, nature, and science have been a source of speculation and wonder for thousands of years. Divine Proportion draws upon both... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Jane Sterling Publisher Comments The CliffsStudySolver workbooks combine 20 percent review material with 80 percent practice problems (and the answers ) to help make your lessons stick. CliffsStudySolver Algebra II is for students who want to reinforce their knowledge with a learn-by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Hoffman
Publisher Comments Paul Erdos, the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, forsook all creature comforts — including a home — to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. He was a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Kaplan Publisher Comments Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero was an international best-seller, translated into ten languages. The Times called it "elegant, discursive, and littered with quotes and allusions from Aquinas via Gershwin to Woolf" and The... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by C. C. Edwards Publisher Comments Do you own a TI-89, TI-89 Titanium, TI-92 Plus, or a Voyage 200 graphing calculator? If you do, or if you need to get one for school or your job, then you need to know how it works and how to make the most of its functions. TI-89 For Dummies is the plain-... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jan Gullberg Synopsis This wide-ranging survey looks at the history of mathematics from the invention of numbers and language, through the realms of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus, to mathematical logic, set theory, topology, fractals and probability,... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $34.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Dykes Publisher Comments Prepared for students by renowned professors and noted experts, here are the most extensive and proven study aids available, covering all the major areas of study in college curriculums. Each guide features: up-to-date scholarship; an easy-to-follow... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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