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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
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Sylvia Nasar
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 ...
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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
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Stephen Hawking (Editor)
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 ...
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Proof: A Play
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David Auburn
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 ...
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Is God a Mathematician?
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Mario Livio
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.
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A Beautiful Mind
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Sylvia Nasar
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 ...
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Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
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William Dunham
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.
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Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos & the Search for Mathematical
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Paul Hoffman
A biography of the Hungarian pure mathematical genius, Paul Erdos, born in 1913 in Budapest. Erdos led a strange life, devoting 19 hours a day, seven days a week to the study of mathematics, travelling the world with his mother until his death at the age of 83. He is considered one of the most extraordinary thinkers of our times.
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Prisoner's Dilemma
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William Poundstone
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 ...
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Men of Mathematics
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Eric Temple Bell
A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.
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The Oxford Murders
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Guillermo Martinez
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 ...
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The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities
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William W Dunham
"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 ...
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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Janna Levin, PH.D.
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.
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
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Apostolos K Doxiadis
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 ...
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Mathematicians Are People, Too
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Luetta Reimer, Wilbert Reimer
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.
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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
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Amir D Aczel, PhD
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 ...
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Turing (a Novel about Computation)
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Christos H Papadimitriou
In this novel of ideas, Turing (named after Alan Turing) is an A.I. program through which an archaeologist named Alexandros takes in a number of ideas, among them the virtues of free markets, the dangers governments pose to humanity, and the potential of the computer age to act as mankind's salvation.
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Man Who Knew Infinity
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Mr. Robert Kanigel
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 ...
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
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Andrew Hodges
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.
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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
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Sylvia Nasar
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 ...
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Out of the Sun
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Robert Goddard
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.
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The Indian Clerk
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David Leavitt
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.
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Journey Through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics
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William Dunham
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.
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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life: An Agony in Eight Fits
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Robin Wilson
In the tradition of Sylvia Nasar's "A Beautiful Mind," this penetrating work explores the amazing imagination and mathematical genius of the man who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." 100 illustrations.
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No Regrets
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Shannon K Butcher
A brilliant mathematician, Noelle Blanche is determined to win the respect of the academic community but not at any price! Desperate as she is for a grant, she refuses to accept the military?s offer of help in return for hers. Their methods go against everything she stands for?until one night of violence and death. She owes her life to a stranger ...
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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics
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Timothy Ferris, Clifton Fadiman (Foreword by)
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.
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