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1	Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics more books like this by William Dunham add to wishlist A rare combination of the historical, biographical, and mathematicalgenius, this book is a fascinating introduction to a neglected field of human creativity. Dunham places mathematical theorem, along with masterpieces of art, music, and literature and gives them the attention they deserve. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash more books like this by Sylvia Nasar add to wishlist This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nasar provides insights into this illness and its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Beautiful Mind more books like this by Sylvia Nasar add to wishlist This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nasar provides insights into this illness and its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History more books like this by Stephen Hawking (Editor) add to wishlist Pulled together for the first time, and paired with commentary from the worlds most respected scholars, God Created the Integers presents historys extraordinary moments in math, culled from 2,500 years of history and 21 distinguished mathematicians, four more than the hardcover edition. Each chapter begins with a profile of one of these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Is God a Mathematician? more books like this by Mario Livio add to wishlist This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world? Illustrations throughout. see all copies from $12.39! new only from $13.00! \| SVS
6	Proof: A Play more books like this by David Auburn add to wishlist Following the death of her brilliant mathematician father, Catherine struggles to come to terms with his legacy. Inheriting some of both his brilliance and his instability, she is torn between her sister, Claire, who wants to take her back to New York, and Hal, a former student of her father's, who tests both her knowledge and her emotions. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| SVS
7	Prisoner's Dilemma more books like this by William Poundstone add to wishlist John von Neumann invented the digital computer, played a key role in the development of the atom bomb, constructed a branch of mathematics known as game theory, and became a defender of a movement to bomb the Russians before they could bomb us. Now comes a biography of this controversial genius and an exploration of his greatest idea--one that ... see all copies from $3.24! new only from $10.36! \| first editions
8	The Indian Clerk more books like this by David Leavitt add to wishlist Based on the remarkable true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown mathematical genius, this brilliant new novel transforms this bit of history into an emotional and spell-binding story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos & the Search for Mathematical more books like this by Paul Hoffman add to wishlist The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject -- he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until he died. He travelled constantly, living out of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Man Who Knew Infinity more books like this by Mr. Robert Kanigel add to wishlist This is an inspiring tale of a scholarly pursuit that reads like an adventurous thriller. In 1913 a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G.H. Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers and setting in motion one of the most productive collaborations ever chronicled. "An exquisite ... see all copies from $4.55! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Men of Mathematics more books like this by Eric Temple Bell add to wishlist A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities more books like this by William W Dunham add to wishlist "If you want to encourage anyone's interest in math, get them The Mathematical Universe...it is enchanting to read. "-New Scientist "A fascinating collection of essays that touch every facet of the history of mathematics, this is sure to be one of the largest of the crown jewels of popular mathematics."-Journal of Recreational Mathematics Now in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Oxford Murders more books like this by Guillermo Martinez add to wishlist A serial killer obsessed with mathematical logic appears to be at work in this literary mystery. The fatal smothering of an elderly woman is accompanied by a note sent to famous mathematician Arthur Seldom, suggesting a link between the murder and Seldom's work exploring the similarities in serial killer behavior and mathematical series. Two other ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.47! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture more books like this by Apostolos K Doxiadis add to wishlist Uncle Petros, a mathematical genius who is quite possibly insane, has lost his teaching job because of his loony obsession with proving a theoretical mathematical theorem known as Goldbach's Conjecture. Nominally a monstrous failure, Uncle Petros has inspired his nephew--the narrator--not only to become a mathematician and carry on the attempt ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $13.81! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity more books like this by Amir D Aczel, PhD add to wishlist A compelling narrative that blends a story of infinity with the tagic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician. From the end of the ninteenth century until his death, one of history's greatest mathematicians languished in an asylum, driven mad by an almost Faustian thirst for universal knowledge. THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH tells the story of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 more books like this by Sylvia Nasar add to wishlist This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nasar provides insights into this illness and its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Alan Turing: The Enigma more books like this by Andrew Hodges add to wishlist Andrew Hodges's biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma code and indeed was the the father of the modern computer, was regarded as 'the paperback buy of the season' (Sunday Times) when it was first published. It is now reissued in Vintage with a new preface. see all copies from $11.65! new only from $17.43! \| first editions
18 view cover	A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines more books like this by Janna Levin, PH.D. add to wishlist This remarkable work of fiction reimagines the lives of two of the most important and influential minds of our time: Kurt G]del, the greatest logician of many centuries; and Alan Turing, the extraordinary mathematician and breaker of the Enigma Code during World War II. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $6.22! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Mathematicians Are People, Too more books like this by Luetta Reimer, Wilbert Reimer add to wishlist Volume Two dramatizes the lives of Omar Khayyam, Albert Einstein, Ada Lovelace, and others. Stories in Volume One focus on moments of mathematical discovery experienced by Thales, Pythagoras, Hypatia, Galileo, Pascal, Germain, and still others. 15 illustrated vignettes per book introduce students to great mathematicians from various cultures. see all copies from $8.75! new only from $53.99!
20 view cover	Journey Through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics more books like this by William Dunham add to wishlist Explores some of the most significant theorems in mathematics, describing the intricate reasoning behind these ideas. Among the theorems presented are Hippocrates' quadrature of the lune, Archimedes' determination of circular area, Euler's number theory and the Bernoullis' harmonic series. see all copies from $3.01! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
21	The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics more books like this by Timothy Ferris, Clifton Fadiman (Foreword by) add to wishlist The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Out of the Sun more books like this by Robert Goddard add to wishlist A literary thriller featuring Harry Barnett, from Goddard's previous novel "Into the Blue". Harry learns that his son is in the hospital, in a deep coma. However, Harry was not aware that he had a son. In his search for the truth, he uncovers a conspiracy with wide implications. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The Givenchy Code more books like this by Julie Kenner add to wishlist As if bad-hair days, scrounging for rent money, and lusting after designer shoes wasn't enough to make Melanie Prescott's life interesting, suddenly she's chasing after obscure clues tossed her way by a madman. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space more books like this by Janna Levin, PH.D. add to wishlist Written as a series of unsent letters to her mother, Janna Levin's book explains the workings of the universe as they engage both the mind and the heart. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.16! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos more books like this by Bruce Schechter add to wishlist For over half a century, in the middle of the night, or in the morning, mathematicians in Budapest or Berkeley, Prague or Sydney, would be summoned by a knock at their front door. There on their doorstep they would find one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century - Paul Erdos, a small suitcase in one hand and a bag full of papers in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS

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