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The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation
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Jennifer Ouellette · 318 pages
A mathphobe explores calculus by starting at the quotidian (more or less) and working to the underlying principles described by calculus.
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff · 142 pages
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than inform.
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Simon Singh · 262 pages
"Aunque muchos han tratado de encontrar enseñanzas filosóficas, psicológicas o incluso literarias en Los Simpson, lo cierto es que si hay una disciplina por la que sus guionistas sientes devoción, esa es las matemáticas. Ya en su episodio piloto, Bart, el genio, aparece una sutil broma sobre ecuaciones diferenciales. Los conceptos más sencillos hasta complejas paradojas, la serie ha recorrido en s
Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos · 338 pages
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, Bellos takes readers on a journey of mathematical discovery. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, how fascinating and extremely accessible they are, and how they have changed our world.
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Matt Parker · 467 pages
A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study. "Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a g
The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
John D. Barrow · 328 pages
Why Do Buses Come in Threes?: The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life
Robert Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham · 156 pages
Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham take you on a mesmerizing journey through the logic of life in a quest for the hidden mathematics in everyday events. It's a world in which Newton's laws explain bar fights and there may be solid reasons why your shower always runs either too hot or too cold. Did you think it was all a matter of coincidence? Universal randomness? To put it in a more philosophic pers
The Mathematics of Life
Ian Stewart · 366 pages
Presents an overview of the role mathematics plays in revealing the hidden complexities of the natural world, and explains how mathematicians and biologists now work together on difficult scientific problems such as the origin of life.
E: The Story of a Number
Eli Maor · 234 pages
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest mathematical background, this biograp
Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
Kaiser Fung · 224 pages
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician (Books Explaining Science)
Morris Kline · 641 pages
The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
Steven H. Strogatz · 336 pages
Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, insight, and brilliant illustrations. Whether he is illuminating how often you should flip your mattress
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
Edward Dolnick · 398 pages
Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
Amir D. Aczel · 153 pages
In 1995, a Princeton-based mathematician showed up at a scientific conference and dropped a bombshell. He had succeeded in deciphering one of mathematics' great secrets, one that thousands had puzzled over for the last three-and-a-half centuries: he had proven Fermat's Last Theorem in a 200-page paper, one that took seven years to write (and another year to fine tune). Fermat's Last Theorem is th
Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Daniel Tammet · 288 pages
An engrossing blend of Autobiography, mathematical theory, and 'what if' speculations. A fascinating even dizzying series of fresh perspectives on things we thought we knew -Billy collins
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski · 331 pages
"The calculus represents humanity's great and profound meditation on the theme of continuity. Time and space are given voice, and speed and area are sub-ordinated to the harsh concept of a limit. The introduction of the real numbers allows the landscape of mathematical analysis to be suffused with thrilling light. In that lit-up landscape, the infinite is for the first time charmed into compliance
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry
Marcus du Sautoy · 388 pages
"Marcus du Sautoy journeys from the pyramid to the football, from fundamental particles to our ideas of art, from insect life to architecture, from computer science to psychology, and explores what is perhaps the most significant concept in mathematics. He shows that symmetry is at the basis of communication and evolutionary biology; at the very heart of life. And he brings us face to face with th
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow · 252 pages
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in life are often attributed to clear and obvious cases, when
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Jordan Ellenberg · 468 pages
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Roger Penrose · 1,099 pages
Un libro definitivo e imprescindible para tener en la mano, en un solo volumen, todo el saber acumulado hasta la actualidad sobre el universo, el espacio, las leyes que lo rigen y los conceptos esenciales.
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Douglas R. Hofstadter · 852 pages
Toen 'Godel, Escher, Bach' verscheen in 1979 was Hofstadter in een klap wereldberoemd. Het is maar weinigen gegeven zo met taal en kennis te spelen: briljant, erudiet, creatief, humoristisch, en didaktisch van zeer hoog niveau. Dezelfde kwaliteiten bepalen het gezicht van 'Metamagische thema's'. Het is een bundeling van artikelen die in de jaren 1981-1983 in de Scientific American verschenen en di
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
John Derbyshire · 435 pages