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  Fermat's Last Theorem

  by Simon Singh

  The story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat's Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century. In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can understand but which has baffled mathematicians for... (more)
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  The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

  by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without . As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory,... (more)
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  Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

  A Novel of Mathematical Obsession

  by Apostolos K. Doxiadis

  In the tradition of Fermat's Last Theorem and Einstein's Dreams , a novel about mathematical obsession. Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Against a tableau of famous historical figures-among them G.H.... (more)
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  The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics

  by Ann Cutler

  The complete system of the Trachtenberg method of mathematics which makes possible high-speed arithmetical calculations with a remarkable degree of accuracy.
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  Alex's Adventures in Numberland

  Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

  by Alex Bellos

  In a charming, conversational prose style, and with diagrams to ease brain stress, he draws us into a forbidding world, often going into the history of famous bits of maths, including the origins of Tetris and Rubik's Cube. The most immediately fascinating chapter is on the application of probability theory to gambling, with insights into slot machines, insurance, lotteries and a neat explanation of Pascal's... (more)
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  Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

  by Ian Stewart

  Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most exhilarating oddities from Professor Stewart’s legendary cabinet. Inside, you will find hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability—like how to extract a cherry... (more)
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  The Man Who Knew Infinity

  A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

  by Robert Kanigel

  A biography of the Ramanujan describes how the natural genius of an unschooled Indian clerk came to the attention of a preeminent mathematician and the world. Reprint.
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  The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

  The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

  by Paul Hoffman

  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.
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  The Oxford Murders

  by Guillermo Martinez, Sonia Soto

  Two mathematicians must join forces to stop a serial killer in this spellbinding international bestseller A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" ( Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentina’s most distinctive voices" ( The Times Literary Supplement ). It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young... (more)
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  God Created the Integers

  The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

  by Stephen W. Hawking

  Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing. This extensive anthology allows readers to peer into the mind of genius by providing them with excerpts from the original mathematical proofs and results. It also helps them... (more)
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  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  by Mark Haddon

  Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the colours yellow and brown. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating,... (more)
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  Chaos

  Making a New Science

  by James Gleick

  James Gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. Alongside relativity and quantum mechanics, it is being hailed as the twentieth century's third revolution.
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  The Music of the Primes : Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters

  by Marcus Du Sautoy

  A history of mathematics from the cutting-edge of present-day research, this book tells the story of the most idiosyncratic and most fundamental numbers in pure mathematics, the primes. When counting, primes (numbers only divisible by one and themselves) appear without any reason or rhythm. To a non-mathematician this may seem an oddity. To scientists the key to this seeming randomness, called the Riemann... (more)
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  Erfolg im Mathe-Abi 2005

  by R. Neumann

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  The Math Book

  From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

  by Clifford A. Pickover

  Math’s 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 milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous delights readers will learn about as they dip into this inviting anthology: cicada-generated prime numbers, magic... (more)
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  As Easy as Pi: Stuff About Numbers That Isn't (Just) Maths

  by Jamie Buchan

  It's hard to imagine a world without numbers in this day and age, when our whole life is centred around commerce and money, and it is the only language that is the same the world over. However, did you know that for a long period of time people could not get their heads around the idea of zero, a figure representing nothing, and that it was even regarded as heretical in some circles? "Easy as Pi" is an... (more)
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  Euclid's Window

  The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

  by Leonard Mlodinow

  Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of... (more)
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  The Joy of Pi

  by David Blatner

  No number has captured the attention and imaginations of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, David Blatner explores the many facets of pi and humankind's fascination with it-from the ancient Egyptians and Archimedes to Leonardo da Vinci and the modern-day Chudnovsky brothers, who have... (more)
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  A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

  by John Allen Paulos

  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. From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to crime, celebrities, and cults, he takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at all and demonstrates how a lack of... (more)
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  Gödel, Escher, Bach

  An Eternal Golden Braid

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter

  Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human... (more)