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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
RRP: £10.99£7.77**The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym... -
How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya
RRP: £10.99£7.77The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth centuryGeorge Polya's perennial bestseller has inspired generations around the world to think more clearly. Brilliantly showing how 'there is a grain of... -
In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart 9780465085989
RRP: £18.99£11.67Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated. In In Pursuit of... -
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £13.99£9.48Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessonsIt was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of... -
Knots (Collins Gem) by Trevor Bounford
RRP: £6.99£4.80A clear introduction to the world of knots, from the practical to the decorative. Illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to master over 50 knots. Step-by-step instructions to tying over 50 knots from the essential to the decorative. A... -
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan EllenbergMatt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers Mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small... -
Kings and Queens (Collins Gem) by Neil Grant
RRP: £6.99£4.80A copiously illustrated guide to the monarchs of the British Isles and Ireland from pre-Saxon times to the present, complete with concise genealogical charts and details of key historical events. The book is divided into five sections,... -
Collins British Tree Guide (Collins Pocket Guide) by Owen Johnson
RRP: £16.99£11.27Experience the joy of discovering the natural world around you with this beautiful pocket guide to British trees, an inspiration and treat designed to enthral all nature lovers. This comprehensive guide to British trees contains some of the... -
At Sixes and Sevens: Numbers and Maths Made Easy by Rachel Riley 9780008491079 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn't be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley. Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse?... -
At Sixes and Sevens: Numbers and Maths Made Easy by Rachel Riley
RRP: £14.99£9.70An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn't be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley. Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse?... -
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
RRP: £10.99£7.32Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life.Maths is everywhere, often where we don't... -
Euclid In The Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math by Joseph Mazur
£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287839Author Joseph MazurFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 330g -
The Music of the Primes: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters by Marcus du Sautoy
RRP: £10.99£7.2520 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition features updates from the author and a foreword by actor and director, Simon McBurney. In 1859, the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann... -
Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality by Ben Orlin 9780316509046
RRP: £16.99£14.52A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures.In Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about. His tools are unorthodox: jokes, cartoons, strange-but-true... -
Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi 9780006531647
RRP: £14.99£10.95Full of fascinating and bizarre cases of genetic mutation and irregularity, 'Mutants' is an amazing exploration of the human form in all its beautiful and unique guises. Why are most of us born with one nose, two legs, ten fingers and... -
The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones
RRP: £11.99£8.43Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack,... -
Big Bang by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £16.99£11.47The bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. A fascinating exploration of the ultimate question: how was our universe created? Albert... -
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart
RRP: £14.99£10.95Since the dramatic discovery of the mathematical concept of chaos in 1989, the controversy of its contents has settled down. This revised edition of Does God Play Dice? takes a fresh look at its achievements and potential. With a new preface and three... -
The Number Mysteries: A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life by Marcus du Sautoy
RRP: £10.99£7.25From the author of 'The Music of the Primes' and 'Finding Moonshine' comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved - and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths. Every time we download a song... -
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry by Marcus du Sautoy 9780007214624
RRP: £12.99£8.48This new book from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry. This is the story of how... -
What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life by Ian Stewart
RRP: £28.00£17.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541699489Author Ian StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm * 36mm -
The Magic of Mathematics: Discovering the Spell of Mathematics by Theoni Pappas 9780933174993
RRP: £9.99£9.40Delves into the world of ideas, explores the spell mathematics casts on our lives, and helps you discover mathematics where you least expect it. Be spellbound by the mathematical designs found in nature. Learn how knots may untie the mysteries of life... -
Math Without Numbers by Milo Beckman
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The whizz-kid making maths supercool. . . A brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation - starting with numbers' The Times'A cheerful, chatty, and charming trip through the world of mathematics. . . Everyone... -
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An entertaining tour that will change how you see the world' Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply HiddenIs there a secret formula for improving your life? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick... -
Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality by Ben Orlin
RRP: £22.00£21.68In MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS, Ben Orlin answers math's three big questions: Why do I need to learn this? When am I ever going to use it? Why is it so hard? The answers come in various forms-cartoons, drawings, jokes, and the stories and insights of an... -
How Numbers Work: Discover the Strange and Beautiful World of Mathematics by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£3.51Think of a number between one and ten.No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity... -
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart
RRP: £12.99£8.63"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."-Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR's Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful... -
When Einstein Walked with Goedel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt 9780374538422
RRP: £20.00£14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538422Author Jim HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Language of Mathematics by DEVLIN 9780805072549
RRP: £16.99£13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805072549Author DEVLINFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 444g -
Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom by Leila Schneps
RRP: £25.00£14.26In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty,and your life,can depend on the right calculation.In Math on Trial ,... -
The Book Of Nothing by John D. Barrow
RRP: £12.99£9.09How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end?From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and... -
Eight Lessons on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure Haim Shapira 9781786781840
RRP: £10.99£7.40Do you want to learn about the most beautiful concept ever invented by humankind? In this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira will inspire you with his humorous and engaging exploration of infinity.Written in clear, simple language... -
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate Paolo Giordano 9781474619288
RRP: £2.99£2.60'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here' Evening Standard'Taking a breather from bewildering statistics and terrible tales of contagion to read Giordano's book was... -
The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from <i>Quanta</i> by Thomas Lin
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536356Author Thomas LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021 by Mircea Pitici
RRP: £20.00£15.89The year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world-and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces collected here. These essays-from... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 1: From Thales to Euclid by I. Thomas
RRP: £24.95£23.23Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical... -
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy by Karl Sigmund 9781541602694
RRP: £28.00£18.59"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic,... -
Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics Ian Stewart 9781847247681
RRP: £10.99£7.40From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major development - from the first number systems to chaos theory... -
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
RRP: £10.99£7.12Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that... -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017 by Mircea Pitici 9780691178639
RRP: £20.00£15.89The year's finest mathematics writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best...