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24 primary works 鈥� 24 total works
Targets the general mathematically-interested reader with broad coverage of biographies, history, popular works, and books of general interest.
The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English
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3.67 路 6 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 1994 路 2 editions
The Words of Mathematics explains the origins of o鈥�

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    Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges
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    4.17     路 6 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 1995 路 2 editions
    This book contains 500 problems that range over a 鈥�

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    Non-Euclidean Geometry
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    4.33     路 21 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2014 路 10 editions
    This is a reissue of Professor Coxeter's classic t鈥�

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    Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam
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    5.00     路 2 Ratings 路 published 2000 路 2 editions
    Through hard experience mathematicians have learne鈥�

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    Mathematical Reminiscences
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    0.00     路 published 2001 路 3 editions
    Long known as a mathematical storyteller, Howard E鈥�

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    Sherlock Holmes in Babylon: And Other Tales of Mathematical History
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    3.33     路 3 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2004 路 3 editions
    Covering a span of almost 4000 years, from the anc鈥�

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    Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine
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    4.33     路 3 Ratings 路 2 Reviews 路 published 2007 路 2 editions
    A collection of the best from Mathematics Magazine鈥�

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    Proof and Other Dilemmas: Mathematics and Philosophy
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    3.00     路 3 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2008 路 4 editions
    For the majority of the twentieth century, philoso鈥�

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    Who Gave you the Epsilon?: And Other Tales of Mathematical History
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    5.00     路 3 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2009 路 4 editions
    This book picks up the history of mathematics from鈥�

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    A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings
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    0.00     路 published 2010 路 4 editions
    Judith Grabiner has written extensively on the his鈥�

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    Mathematics in Historical Context
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    3.67     路 6 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2009 路 3 editions
    What would Newton see if he looked out his bedroom鈥�

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    Lobachevski Illuminated
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    5.00     路 1 Ratings 路 published 2011 路 2 editions
    Lobachevski Illuminated provides a historical intr鈥�

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    Beautiful Mathematics
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    3.00     路 7 Ratings 路 2 Reviews 路 published 2011 路 6 editions
    Mathematical ideas have an aesthetic appeal that c鈥�

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    A Mathematician Comes of Age
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    3.64     路 11 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2011 路 2 editions
    This book is about the concept of mathematical mat鈥�

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    Calculus and Its Origins
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    4.67     路 3 Ratings 路 2 Reviews 路 published 2012 路 2 editions
    Calculus answers questions that had been explored 鈥�

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    Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel
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    3.67     路 3 Ratings 路 2 Reviews 路 published 2012 路 2 editions
    The French mathematician Sophie Germain was the fi鈥�

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    In the Dark on the Sunny Side: A Memoir of an Out-of-Sight Mathematician
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    4.00     路 13 Ratings 路 2 Reviews 路 published 2012 路 5 editions
    Misfortune struck one June day in 1944, when a fiv鈥�

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    Six Sources of Collapse
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    4.00     路 2 Ratings 路 2 Reviews 路 published 2012 路 5 editions
    Beginning with one of the most remarkable ecologic鈥�

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    More Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam
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    4.00     路 2 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2013 路 4 editions
    Mistakes in mathematical reasoning can range from 鈥�

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    Illustrated Special Relativity Through Its Paradoxes: Standard Edition: A Fusion of Linear Algebra, Graphics, and Reality
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    5.00     路 1 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2014 路 3 editions
    This accessible work, with its plethora of full-co鈥�

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    How Euler Did Even More
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    4.00     路 1 Ratings 路 1 Reviews 路 published 2015 路 4 editions
    C. Edward Sandifer has been studying Euler for dec鈥�

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    I, Mathematician
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    0.00     路 published 2015 路 2 editions
    "At the MAA Summer MathFest in 2007, Peter Casazza鈥�

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    Half a Century of Pythagoras Magazine
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    5.00     路 1 Ratings 路 published 2016 路 2 editions
    Half a Century of Pythagoras Magazine is a selecti鈥�

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    Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating-Sign Matrix Conjecture
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    3.67     路 9 Ratings 路 published 1999 路 4 editions
    This introduction to recent developments in algebr鈥�

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