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The Asylum by Carol Minto 9781913406608
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €6.81For 46 years, Carol Minto has quietly gone about her life, carrying with her the most extraordinary and heartbreaking secrets. Born into poverty and with mostly absent parents, Carol helped to raise her nine siblings. But when she was just 11 years... -
The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics by Gary B. Meisner
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.78The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its ubiquity among plants, animals, and even the cosmos. This gorgeous book-with layflat dimensions that closely approximate the golden... -
Sacred Geometry by Miranda Lundy 9781904263043
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €6.52Is there a secret visual language all around us? What's so special about the shape of the Great Pyramid? Why is there something so sixy about circles? How many ways can you tile the plane? Lavishly illustrated by the author, this enchanting small... -
The Secret Code by Priya Hemenway
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €12.72The Divine Proportion reveals a number of simple patterns: It is seen in the seed patterns of fruits, the family tree of bees, the pyramids of Egypt, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance paintings, the human body, shells ... the list is endless. ... -
Ruler and Compass: Practical Geometric Constructions by Andrew Sutton 9781904263661
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €7.28How do you draw a heptagon? What about a heptakaidecagon? How do you fit circles perfectly into triangles? And around them? If the computer is down - could you do it with ruler and compass? In this unique little book, Andrew Sutton guides you... -
Galois Theory Through Exercises Juliusz Brzezinski 9783319723259
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €29.54This textbook offers a unique introduction to classical Galois theory through many concrete examples and exercises of varying difficulty (including computer-assisted exercises). In addition to covering standard material, the book explores topics related... -
Fractals: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth Falconer
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.33Many are familiar with the beauty and ubiquity of fractal forms within nature. Unlike the study of smooth forms such as spheres, fractal geometry describes more familiar shapes and patterns, such as the complex contours of coastlines, the outlines of... -
99 Variations on a Proof by Philip Ording
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.07An exploration of mathematical style through 99 different proofs of the same theoremThis book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwise unremarkable... -
Chaos and Fractals: An Elementary Introduction by David P. Feldman 9780199566440
RRP: €54.13Booksplease Price: €47.21This book provides the reader with an elementary introduction to chaos and fractals, suitable for students with a background in elementary algebra, without assuming prior coursework in calculus or physics. It introduces the key phenomena of chaos -... -
The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka 9780486235424
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486235424Author Matila GhykaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Oliver Byrne. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by TASCHEN
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €44.20Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for his 1847 edition of Euclid's mathematical and geometric treatise Elements. Byrne's idea was to use... -
Making Geometry: Exploring Three-Dimensional Forms by Jon Allen
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.39Following on from his successful Drawing Geometry, Jon Allen explores the creation of the many-sided three-dimensional forms known as the Platonic and Archimedean solids. Based on patterns of equally spaced points on a sphere, these polyhedra have been... -
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.75This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a... -
Geometry For Dummies Mark Ryan (The Math Center, Winnetka, IL) 9781119181552
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.47Hit the geometry wall? Get up and running with this no-nonsense guide! Does the thought of geometry make you jittery? You're not alone. Fortunately, this down-to-earth guide helps you approach it from a new angle, making it easier than ever to conquer... -
The Diagram: Harmonic Geometry by Adam Tetlow 9781907155338
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €7.28How do you divide a line into three? Or five? Or seven? Is there a simple way to marry harmony and geometry? What is the secret diagram alluded to by writers of antiquity? In this groundbreaking book, philosopher Adam Tetlow reveals the long lost... -
A Short Course in Computational Geometry and Topology by Herbert Edelsbrunner 9783319059563
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €35.37This monograph presents a short course in computational geometry and topology. In the first part the book covers Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, then it presents the theory of alpha complexes which play a crucial role in biology. The... -
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
Booksplease Price: €11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646766Author Sabine HossenfelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *... -
Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen 9781904263470
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €7.28What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small but compact volume, internationally renowned divine proportion supersleuth Dr. Olsen... -
Drawing Geometric Solids: How to Draw Polyhedra from Platonic Solids to Star-Shaped Stellated Dodecahedrons by Sympsionics Design 9789526821733
RRP: €8.21Booksplease Price: €7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789526821733Author Sympsionics DesignFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint DeltaspektriPublisher DeltaspektriWeight(grams) 154g -
Sacred Geometry: How to use cosmic patterns to power up your life by Jemma Foster
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.88Sacred Geometry exists all around us in the natural world, from the unfurling of a rose bud to the pattern of a tortoise shell, the sub-atomic to the galactic. A pure expression of number and form, it is the language of creation and navigates the unseen... -
The Fifty-nine Icosahedra by H. S. M. Coxeter 9781907550089
RRP: €16.60Booksplease Price: €10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907550089Author H. S. M. CoxeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Tarquin PublicationsPublisher Tarquin PublicationsDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm -
The Hidden Geometry of Flowers: Living Rhythms, Form and Number by Keith Critchlow
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €32.11Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful, offering us delight in their colour, fragrance and form, as well as their medicinal benefits. Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself, as cultural symbols in... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli 9780241635049
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.68A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of... -
Lectures on Symplectic Geometry by Ana Cannas Da Silva 9783540421955
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €56.99These notes approximately transcribe a 15-week course on symplectic geometry I taught at UC Berkeley in the Fall of 1997. The course at Berkeley was greatly inspired in content and style by Victor Guillemin, whose masterly teaching of beautiful courses... -
Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra by Erik D. Demaine
RRP: €67.83Booksplease Price: €62.93Did you know that any straight-line drawing on paper can be folded so that the complete drawing can be cut out with one straight scissors cut? That there is a planar linkage that can trace out any algebraic curve, or even 'sign your name'? Or that a... -
Oliver Byrne's Elements of Euclid: The First Six Books with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols by Art Meets Science 9781528770439
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €36.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770439Author Art Meets ScienceFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 25mm -
Exterior differential calculus and applications to economic theory by Ivar Ekeland 9788876422515
Booksplease Price: €17.41During the academic year 1995/96, I was invited by the Scuola Normale Superiore to give a series of lectures. The purpose of these notes is to make the underlying economic problems and the mathematical theory of exterior differential systems accessible... -
Oliver Byrne's Elements of Euclid: The First Six Books with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols by Art Meets Science 9781528720090
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528720090Author Art Meets ScienceFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 21mm -
Grade 6 Geometry & Measurement by Publishing Kumon 9781934968567
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €6.77Kumon Workbooks teach children one specific skill from start to finish. The Kumon Method introduces concepts step-by-step, helping children to master each skill in turn as they gain confidence in their abilities and gather motivation to continue learning... -
Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry by Daud Sutton 9781904263593
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €7.28Across the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, and adorning mosques, mausoleums and palaces, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. In this excellent little book, geometer Daud Sutton... -
Euclid's Elements (the Thirteen Books) by Euclid 9781420956474
Booksplease Price: €16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420956474Author EuclidFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm -
Advanced Euclidean Geometry by Roger A. Johnson 9780486462370
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486462370Author Roger A. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 345g -
Introduction to Algebraic Geometry by Serge Lang 9780486834221
RRP: €14.86Booksplease Price: €9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834221Author Serge LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm)... -
Information Geometry and Its Applications by Shun-ichi Amari
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €108.10This is the first comprehensive book on information geometry, written by the founder of the field. It begins with an elementary introduction to dualistic geometry and proceeds to a wide range of applications, covering information science, engineering,... -
Space and Counterspace: A New Science of Gravity, Time and Light by Nick C. Thomas 9780863156700
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.20'Einstein did not attempt to explain the constancy of the velocity of light: he assumed it and derived his theories accordingly. But we have explained it.' -- from Chapter 8 of Space and CounterspaceMany people feel alienated by modern science and its... -
Sheaves in Geometry and Logic: A First Introduction to Topos Theory by Saunders MacLane 9780387977102
RRP: €77.34Booksplease Price: €64.90We dedicate this book to the memory of J. Frank Adams. His clear insights have inspired many mathematicians, including both of us. In January 1989, when the first draft of our book had been completed, we heard the sad news of his untimely death. This has... -
Drawing Circle Images: How to Draw Artistic Symmetrical Images with a Ruler and Compass by Musigfi Studio 9789526787862
RRP: €7.02Booksplease Price: €6.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789526787862Author Musigfi StudioFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint DeltaspektriPublisher DeltaspektriWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 3mm -
The Geometrical Tolerancing Desk Reference: Creating and Interpreting ISO Standard Technical Drawings by Paul Green 9780750668217
Booksplease Price: €40.23Geometrical tolerancing is the standard technique that designers and engineers use to specify and control the form, location and orientation of the features of components and manufactured parts. This innovative book has been created to simplify and... -
The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration beyond the Line Alfred S. Posamentier 9781633881679
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.55The circle has fascinated mathematicians since ancient times. This entertaining book describes in layperson's terms the many intriguing properties of this fundamental shape. If math has intimidated you, this may be the ideal book to help you appreciate... -
Drawing Geometry: A Primer of Basic Forms for Artists, Designers and Architects by Jon Allen 9780863156083
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.03Geometry is both elegantly simple and infinitely profound. Many professionals find they need to be able to draw geometric shapes accurately, and this unique book shows them how.It provides step-by-step instructions for constructing two-dimensional...