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  • Mathematical Recreations & Essays

    Twelfth Edition

    Series series Heritage
    For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations. Although they often involve fundamental mathematical methods and notions, their chief appeal is as games or puzzles rather than the usefulness of their conclusions.This new edition upholds the original, but the terminology and treatment of problems have been updated ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Joy of Mathematics

    Discovering mathematics all around you

    by Theoni Pappas ...
    Part of the joy of mathematics is that it is everywhere-in soap bubbles, electricity, da Vinci's masterpieces, even in an ocean wave. Written by the well-known mathematics teacher consultant, this volume's collection of over 200 clearly illustrated mathematical ideas, concepts, puzzles, and games shows where they turn up in the "real" world. You'll find out what a googol is, visit hotel infinity, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Magical Maze

    Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes

    by Ian Stewart ...
    Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze—a maze in your head—a maze of ideas, a maze of logic. And that maze in your mind is a powerful tool for understanding an even bigger maze—the one of cause and effect that we call "the universe." That is its special kind of magic. Real ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Randomness

    From the ancients’ first readings of the innards of birds to your neighbor’s last bout with the state lottery, humankind has put itself into the hands of chance. Today life itself may be at stake when probability comes into play—in the chance of a false negative in a medical test, in the reliability of DNA findings as legal evidence, or in the likelihood of passing on a deadly congenital disease ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Why Do Buses Come in Threes

    The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

    "Deals in a very entertaining way with problems in normal life related to mathematics, luck, coincidence, gambling." - The Independent (London)Why do your chances of winning the lottery increase if you buy your ticket on Friday? Why do traffic lights always seem to be red when you're in a hurry? Is bad luck just chance, or can it be explained?The intriguing answers to these and other questions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wonders of Numbers

    Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning

    Who were the five strangest mathematicians in history? What are the ten most interesting numbers? Jam-packed with thought-provoking mathematical mysteries, puzzles, and games, Wonders of Numbers will enchant even the most left-brained of readers. Hosted by the quirky Dr. Googol--who resides on a remote island and occasionally collaborates with Clifford Pickover--Wonders of Numbers focuses on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Surfing through Hyperspace

    Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons

    Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore the all-but-unfathomable concepts of hyperspace and higher-dimensional geometry. No subject in mathematics has ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Puzzlers' Tribute

    A Feast for the Mind

    Edited by David Wolfe, Tom Rodgers ...
    This second collection of interesting mathematical puzzles continues the tribute to Martin Gardner, who has provided us with original puzzles and puzzling stories ever since he created and produced the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. The international community of puzzle enthusiasts has gathered once again to celebrate Martin Ga ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Mathematical Puzzles

    A Connoisseur's Collection

    by Peter Winkler ...
    Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
    Collected over several years by Peter Winkler, of Bell Labs, dozens of elegant, intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain, but without this book, devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or higher mathematics is necessary. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Machines Who Think

    A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence

    This book is a history of artificial intelligence, that audacious effort to duplicate in an artifact what we consider to be our most important property—our intelligence. It is an invitation for anybody with an interest in the future of the human race to participate in the inquiry. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Mathematics & Common Sense

    A Case of Creative Tension

    From the Preface: This book is addressed to all who are curious about the nature of mathematics and its role in society. It is neither a text book nor a specialists' book. It consists of a number of loosely linked essays that may be read independently and for which I have tried to provide a leitmotif by throwing light on the relationship between mathematics and common sense. In these essays I hope ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 50 Math And Science Games For Leadership

    Did you like Math or Science in school? Have you played games that stimulated your thought processes for Math and Science? Trying to be creative in your Math, Science or leadership class? Can leadership be taught? Is leadership an Art or a Science or Math? Seeking to impact your training program with creative games?A primer for leadership development, this book introduces Math and Science games ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Crimes and Mathdemeanors

    by Leith Hathout ...
    A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solving mysteries. The main character is Ravi, a 14-year-old math genius who helps the local police solve cases. Each chapter is a detective story with a mathematical puzzle at its core that Ravi is able to solve. The ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Numbers at Work

    A Cultural Perspective

    Drawing primarily from historical examples, this book explains the tremendous role that numbers and, in particular, mathematics play in all aspects of our civilization and culture. The lively style and illustrative examples will engage the reader who wants to understand the many ways in which mathematics enables science, technology, art, music, pol ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Shape of Content

    Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science

    This book is a collection of creative pieces-poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts-that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. This book portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences. Creative writing about the content of mathematics and science is rare, and creative writing ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Fifth Postulate

    How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe

    The great discovery that no one wanted to makeIt's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guesstimation

    Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin

    Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to think on their feet. Guesstimation enables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Homage to a Pied Puzzler

    The tradition of honoring Martin Gardner continues with this edited collection of articles by those who have been inspired by Gardner to enter mathematics, to enter magic, to bring magic into their mathematics, or to bring mathematics into their magic. Contributing authors include world-leading puzzle designers, puzzle collectors, mathematicians, a ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Mathematical Wizardry for a Gardner

    In this volume, world-leading puzzle designers, puzzle collectors, mathematicians, and magicians continue the tradition of honoring Martin Gardner, who inspired them to enter mathematics, to enter magic, to bring magic into their mathematics, or to bring mathematics into their magic. This edited collection contains a variety of articles connected t ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • How Many Licks?

    Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything

    by Aaron Santos ...
    How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here's the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it's all approximate!Using Enrico Fermi's theory of approximation, Santos brings the world of numbers into ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Guard an Art Gallery

    And Other Discrete Mathematical Adventures

    by T.S. Michael ...
    An “accessible and engaging” tool for understanding the branch of mathematics that is so crucial to modern computer science, using real-life problems (Mathematical Reviews).What is the maximum number of pizza slices one can get by making four straight cuts through a circular pizza? How does a computer determine the best set of pixels to represent a straight line on a computer screen? How many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gold Medal Physics

    The Science of Sports

    A physicist explains the science behind some of the greatest feats in sports history—from diving like Greg Louganis to bending it like Beckham.Nothing is quite as thrilling as watching superior athletes do the seemingly impossible. From Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary" pass to Lance Armstrong's record-breaking climb of Alp d'Huez to David Beckham's astounding ability to bend a soccer kick, we marvel and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Number Fun

    This book is like 210 individual puzzles while at the same time it is one very large puzzle. Things needed to play this game. 1. A handheld calculator. 2. A pencil with a good eraser. 3. A good amount of patience. 4. At least some interest in puzzles. Age requirement Good for any age if you can add and subtract and use a calculator. To try this without a calculator would require reams of scrap ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Old Dogs, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents

    “Perfect for parents who want to understand the different methods to do arithmetic their children are learning—and why they are being taught that way.”—Keith Devlin, award-winning Stanford University mathematician“Can you help me with my math homework?” If this question fills you with fear (or even panic), then Old Dogs, New Math is here to help!Gone are the days when elementary school students ... Read more

    $12.99 USD