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1000 Playthinks - Puzzles, Paradoxes, Illusions & GamesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fantastic compendium of puzzles and games for solo or group use. Some are mind puzzles, some require pencil and paper, and some involve tracing/copying and cutting. Each is rated in difficulty fro...
author: Ivan Moscovich |
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Best American Science Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty essays from notable authors selected as the best picks of 2007 by Gina Kolata, award winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and author of "Flu: The Story of the Great Infl...
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Big Book of Brain Games - 1000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A revised and updated version of Moscovich's earlier compilation of challenges, puzzles, riddles, and illusions. Full-color illustration for each entry. Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patte...
author: Ivan Moscovich |
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Chaos: Making a New ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays that trace the birth and development of the chaos theory. Includes color and black & white photos and illustrations. Essay Titles: The Butterfly Effect; revolution; Life's Ups a...
author: James Gleick |
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Coincidenses, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty IdeasClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Written in a style that combines his wit as a stand-up comic with his knowledge as Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, this book will appeal to puzzle and math lovers as well as probability ...
author: Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird |
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous EquationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Although the famous equation is familiar to so many, it is also true that it is well-understood by a relative few. The author begins by taking each letter and symbol of the equation and devoting a c...
author: David Bodanis |
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Family MathClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A book for parents and children working together, learning to like math, and doing activities that make math fun for children from five to 18 years old. It covers important mathematics topics like wo...
author: Jean Kerr Stenmark, Virginia Thompson, Ruth Cossey |
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathamatical ProblemClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The amazing story of the Holy Grail of Mathematics and the 356 years of struggle to find the proof, and of Andrew Wiles, the man who did.
author: Simon Singh |
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Films of Charles and Ray Eames (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Volume 1 - Powers of Ten: An adventure in magnitudes, from without and within. Journey from a picnic in Chicago to the outer edges of the universe and back again. Also included is the original 1968 ...
author: Charles Eames, Ray Eames |
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Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical TruthClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An engaging biography of the eccentric , homeless, and brilliant mathematician Paul Erdös, who travelled the world in pursuit of his love of numbers.
author: Paul Hoffman |
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The author introduces a deck of cards and procedes to explain the story behind one of the best-known, unsolved mathematical mysteries of the last 150 years, one that has kept mathematicians puzzled si...
author: John Derbyshire |
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Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the search for the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, for which the Clay Institute put up a $1 million prize in 2001, and of the mathematicians who have worked to solve it. Also a rare inti...
author: Karl Sabbagh |
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Science in the Twentieth Century: A Social-Intellectual Survey (on CD and DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Available as audio book or DVD. Taught by Professor Steven L. Goldman, Lehigh University. Lectures include: The Evolution of 20th-Century Science; Redefining Reality; Quantum Theory Makes Its Appea...
author: Steven L. Goldman |
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The Best American Science Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty essays from notable authors selected as the best picks of 2007 by Gina Kolata, award winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and author of "Flu: The Story of the Great Infl...
author: Gina Kolata, editor |
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The Big Book of Brain Games - 1000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A revised and updated version of Moscovich's earlier compilation of challenges, puzzles, riddles, and illusions. Full-color illustration for each entry. Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patte...
author: Ivan Moscovich |
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The Films of Charles and Ray Eames (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Volume 1 - Powers of Ten: An adventure in magnitudes, from without and within. Journey from a picnic in Chicago to the outer edges of the universe and back again. Also included is the original 1968 ...
author: Charles Eames, Ray Eames |
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical TruthClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An engaging biography of the eccentric , homeless, and brilliant mathematician Paul Erdös, who travelled the world in pursuit of his love of numbers.
author: Paul Hoffman |
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The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the search for the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, for which the Clay Institute put up a $1 million prize in 2001, and of the mathematicians who have worked to solve it. Also a rare inti...
author: Karl Sabbagh |
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous IdeaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of zero, from ancient times to the present, and how it has fascinated and perplexed thinkers not only in mathematics, but also in science, philosophy, theology and even art. An entertainin...
author: Charles Seife |
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