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…
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1. Chaos: Making a New Science
By: James Gleick
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more
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"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
2. Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring)
By: Ian Stewart
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a … read more
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"Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will"-Ian Stewart, Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring)
3. Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
By: William Dunham
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestone… read more
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4. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession
By: Apostolos Doxiadis , Απόστολος Δοξιάδης
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this critically acclaimed international bestseller, Petros Papachristos, a mathematical prodigy,… read more
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5. Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
By: Eugenia Cheng
3.95
Format: 272 pages,
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6. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
By: James Gleick
3.74
Format: 410 pages,
An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman--a giant of twentieth century physics--from his childh… read more
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7. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
By: Paul Hoffman
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul… read more
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8. Gödel's Proof
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter , Ernest Nagel , James Roy Newman
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Princi… read more
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9. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
By: Steven H. Strogatz
2.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more
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10. 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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11. The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
By: Noson S. Yanofsky
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. R… read more
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12. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
By: None
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! - Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! - Make a per… read more
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13. A Mathematician's Apology
By: G.H. Hardy
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1940 as his mathematical powers were declining, G.H. Hardy's apology offers an engaging … read more
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14. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.48
Format: None pages,
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us … read more
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15. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacheris a publishing first… read more
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16. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Pr… read more
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17. The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
By: Marcus du Sautoy
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy that would f… read more
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18. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
By: George Pólya
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, "How to Solve It" will show anyone in any… read more
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19. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
By: Edward Frenkel
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesScience Bestseller What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taug… read more
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20. A Brief History of Time
By: Stephen Hawking , Phạm Văn Thiều , None
4.21
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book … read more
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"God abhors a naked singularity."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
21. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
By: John Derbyshire
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis whil… read more
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22. In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
By: Ian Stewart
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical e… read more
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23. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
By: Emanuel Derman
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy … read more
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24. The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
By: Robert Kanigel
4.02
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent Engli… read more
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"His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths."-Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
"Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra p…"-Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
"Viewed one way, then, for at least five years between 1904 and 1909, Ramanujan floundered- mostly out of school, without a degree, without contact with other mathematicians. And yet, was the cup half…"-Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
"He received no guidance, no stimulation, no money beyond the few rupees he made from tutoring. But for all the economic deadweight he represented, his family apparently discouraged him little- not en…"-Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
25. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more
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26. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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27. e: the Story of a Number
By: Eli Maor
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The story of [pi] has been told many times, both in scholarly works and in popular books. But its c… read more
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28. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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29. 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
30. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By: Steven H. Strogatz
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more
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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
31. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more
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"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
