How Mathematics Happened

The First 50,000 Years

by Peter S. Rudman

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Publisher: Prometheus Books

Publication date: February 05, 2007

Rudman chronicles the fascinating evolution of mathematics in the ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Mayan and Greek cultures and asks why these different societies developed and used math in different ways. HC. 314pp. 2007.

Irreligion

A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

by John Allen Paulos

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication date: January 01, 2008

Paulos turns his mathematician’s eye to 12 of the most commonly offered proofs for God—including the First Cause argument, the Ontological Argument and the Argument from Design—and finds them wanting. HC. 176pp. 2008.

Differential Equations for Dummies®

by Steven Holzner

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Publication date: June 10, 2008

Filled with step-by-step techniques, practical tips, numerous exercises and clear examples, this book clearly explains differential equations of first, second and higher order, as well as a host of related topics. SC. 360pp. 2008.

The Lightness of Being

Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces

by Frank Wilczek

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Publisher: Basic Books

Publication date: September 01, 2008

The Nobel-winning physicist offers a clear and brilliant exploration of the new paradigms of reality he helped create.

The Annotated Flatland

by Edwin A. Abbott

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Publisher: Basic Books

Publication date: August 01, 2008

Stewart takes us through the entire text of Abbott’s Flatland, offering unprecedented literary and social insights into this classic and impressively expanding on the mathematical ideas contained in the book. SC. 272pp. 2001.

Free Calculus

A Liberation From Concepts and Proofs

by Qun Lin

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Publisher: World Scientific

Publication date: July 01, 2008

Lin offers a refreshing new approach to introductory calculus—sticking to plain English, harnessing proofs that consist of only a few lines of arithmetic, and avoiding the complexity that marks traditional texts. HC. 108pp. 2008.

Nature's Blueprint

by Dan Hooper

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Publisher: Harper Collins Pub Ltd.

Publication date: September 16, 2008

Hooper describes the theory of supersymmetry, explains its role in grand unified theories and the search for dark matter and assesses the prospects for experimental confirmation at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider. HC. 218pp. 2008.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Game Theory in Everyday Life

by Len Fisher

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Publisher: Basic Books Inc.

Publication date: November 04, 2008

Fisher harnesses a wide and amusing array of real-world examples—from children’s games to lizard mating strategies—to illustrate the power of game theory, which models behavior in strategic situations. SC. 244pp. 2008.

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

by Ian Stewart

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Publisher: Basic Books Inc.

Publication date: December 08, 2008

From magic squares to cones that roll uphill, this book offers a miscellany of math-related games, puzzles, stories and facts. Many of the puzzles appear here for the first time and complete solutions are provided.

It Looked Good on Paper

Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters and Engineering Follies

by Bill Fawcett

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Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication date: January 01, 2009

Flawed plans, half-baked ideas and ridiculous machines that were conceived with the most optimistic intentions.