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"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year's ten best."-Ben Brantley, The New York Times "<The> #1 show of the... (more)

Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

by Gary Chartrand

Mathematical Proofs is designed to prepare students for the more abstract mathematics courses that follow calculus. This text introduces students to proof techniques and writing proofs of their own. As such, it is an introduction to the mathematics enterprise providing solid introductions to relations, functions, and cardinalities of sets.

Gödel's proof,

by Ernest Nagel

"A little masterpiece of exegesis." - Nature "An excellent nontechnical account of the substance of Gödel's celebrated paper." -American Mathematical Society In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of -Principia Mathematica- and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and... (more)

Four Colours Suffice

by Robin J. Wilson

A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the solution to one of the world's most puzzling mathematical problems. The four-colour theorem states that every map in the world can be coloured with just four colours in such a way that neighbouring countries have different colours. One of the simplest problems to state, one of the hardest to solve, which took a century for mathematicians to prove. This book... (more)

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

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Doubt

by John Patrick Shanley