Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
By: Ian Stewart
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pio…
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1. Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
By: Stephen R. Donaldson
3.72
Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange altern… read more
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"Dreams never forgive."-Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
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"Take heart. Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world."-Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
2. Le memorie di Maigret
By: Georges Simenon , Marco Bevilacqua
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
<>. Enfatizzava queste ultime parole come se si trattasse di una scoperta sensazionale. <>. Sulle p… read more
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3. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
By: Simon Singh
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demon… read more
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4. Maigret Goes to School
By: Georges Simenon , Daphne Woodward
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Maigret procedeva con estrema cautela e aveva l'impressione di camminare sulle sabbie mobili. Non p… read more
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5. Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
By: Andrea Wulf
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardenersnow gives us an enlightening chronicle of the … read more
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6. The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
By: Simon Singh
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons(and its sister show Futurama) without eve… read more
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7. Julio Cortázar: Rayuela
By: Robert Brody
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A guide to Julio Cortazar's classic Rayuela. read more
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8. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
By: Basil Mahon , None
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, … read more
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9. Isaac Newton
By: James Gleick
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he … read more
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10. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
By: Michio Kaku
4.10
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more
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11. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
12. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
13. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
14. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
15. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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16. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
17. ¿Qué hace un bosón como tú en un Big Bang como este?: Orgías cósmicas, polvo de estrellas y otras locuras cuánticas
By: Javier Santaolalla
4.22
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
Un libro para todos los públicos, ameno y desenfadado, que explica -¡y se entiende!- conceptos tan … read more
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18. La sinfonía de Julia
By: Mercedes Guerrero
4.54
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Regresa la autora de El baile de las marionetas, el fenómeno editorial que despunta en España, Esta… read more
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19. Inteligencia matemática
By: Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón
4.07
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
«¿Quién leería un libro sobre matemáticas sin que le obliguen?», se preguntará el lector de este li… read more
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20. Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
By: Marcus du Sautoy
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver—and how everyone c… read more
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21. Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
By: Ian Stewart
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pio… read more
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