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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition by Albert Einstein 9780691191812
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A handsome annotated edition of Einstein's celebrated book on relativityAfter completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity... -
Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces by Charlotta Hedberg 9789400737860
Booksplease Price: £90.56Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. Against such a backdrop, this book seeks to unveil a set of dynamics that view rural areas as... -
100 Science Discoveries: That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.16Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great... -
Geometry: Plane and Fancy by David A. Singer 9781461268376
Booksplease Price: £46.28A fascinating tour through parts of geometry students are unlikely to see in the rest of their studies while, at the same time, anchoring their excursions to the well known parallel postulate of... -
Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology by David S. Richeson 9780691154572
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is... -
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition by Albert Einstein
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.32After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was "to give an exact... -
Prelude to Mathematics by W. W. Sawyer 9780486244013
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62A noted educator's account of some of the more stimulating and surprising branches of mathematics, this volume profiles the mathematical mind and the aims of mathematics. Five introductory chapters... -
Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations by Stephen Ornes
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.55From geometry in motion to the possibilities of pi, this stunning volume reveals how art inspired the beauty and poetry of mathematical principles. The worlds of visual art and mathematics come... -
Einstein and the Generations of Science by Lewis Samuel Feuer
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and... -
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea 9780141032382
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Poincare Conjecture tells the story behind one of the world's most confounding mathematical theories. Formulated in 1904 by Henri Poincare, his Conjecture promised to describe the very shape of... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics: Fourth edition by David Nelson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics, from algebra to mechanics and from number theory to statistics. Invaluable for students at all levels, it... -
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History by Stephen Hawking
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from... -
An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology: Theory, Observations, and Applications by Steven A. Balbus 9780691211299
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.54An engaging and authoritative introduction to general relativity and cosmology for graduate students and advanced undergraduatesGeneral relativity has entered a new phase of its development as... -
Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangalli
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.28The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These... -
Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin 9780691192307
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A mathematician's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci,... -
Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers by Joseph Mazur 9780691173375
Booksplease Price: £22.75While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did... -
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of -1 by Paul J. Nahin
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and... -
Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity by David S. Richeson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.76A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied... -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 by Mircea Pitici 9780691156552
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75This 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 Writing... -
Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis Christos Laskos 9780745333809
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.92Syriza's victory in the recent Greek general election shook the foundations of the Western political establishment and gave hope to the millions suffering the austerity measures imposed by the... -
The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation Fabio Toscano 9780691264882
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates... -
Scattering in Quantum Field Theories: The Axiomatic and Constructive Approaches by Daniel Iagolnitzer 9780691604077
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Axiomatic and constructive approaches to quantum field theory first aim to establish it on precise, non-perturbative bases: general axioms and rigorous definition of specific theories respectively... -
Lectures on Pseudo-Differential Operators: Regularity Theorems and Applications to Non-Elliptic Problems. (MN-24) by Alexander Nagel 9780691630854
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.30The theory of pseudo-differential operators (which originated as singular integral operators) was largely influenced by its application to function theory in one complex variable and regularity... -
Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards by Jessica Wynne
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.25A photographic exploration of mathematicians' chalkboards"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns," wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer... -
Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science by Richard D. McKirahan 9780691603254
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25By a thorough study of the Posterior Analytics and related Aristotelian texts, Richard McKirahan reconstructs Aristotle's theory of episteme--science. The Posterior Analytics contains the first... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 14 (English): The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, April 1923-May 1925 (English Translation Supplement) - Documentary Edition by Albert Einstein 9780691164229
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £56.48In the almost one hundred writings and more than one thousand letters included in this volume, Einstein is revealed yet again as the consummate puzzler of myriad scientific problems as well as the... -
Topics in Commutative Ring Theory by John J. Watkins 9780691127484
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.81Topics in Commutative Ring Theory is a textbook for advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students and mathematicians seeking an accessible introduction to this fascinating area of... -
Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out by John Stillwell 9780691177175
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.03This book presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the two thousand years that... -
Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out by John Stillwell
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.28The first book surveying the history and ideas behind reverse mathematicsReverse mathematics is a new field that seeks to find the axioms needed to prove given theorems. In Reverse Mathematics, John... -
Discontinuous Groups and Riemann Surfaces (AM-79), Volume 79: Proceedings of the 1973 Conference at the University of Maryland. (AM-79) by Leon Greenberg 9780691081380
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £101.66Study 79 contains a collection of papers presented at the Conference on Discontinuous Groups and Ricmann Surfaces at the University of Maryland, May 21-25, 1973. The papers, by leading authorities,... -
Work and Days: Daily wisdom from the Greeks and Romans to get you through your working day Andy Law 9781912555109
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.81Greece and Rome could well be called the 'Mothers of Invention' when it comes to business and strategy. Ancient Greeks and Romans were as industrious in business as they were in warfare,... -
Llama Llama Holiday Helper by Anna Dewdney
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.78Celebrate the holidays with Llama Llama and all his friends in this beautifully illustrated picture book, based on the hit animated Netflix series!Look out, world--Llama Llama is a TV star! The... -
Numbers: To Infinity and Beyond by Oliver Linton 9781907155314
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What are numbers? Where do they come from? Are there different kings of number? Why was Pythagoras fascinated by triangular and square numbers? Is there a link between perfect numbers and primes? In... -
Books That Changed History: From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary DK 9780241289334
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.98Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata.Books that Changed History features 75 of the world's most momentous titles - from The Art of... -
Llama Llama el ayudante de las fiestas by Anna Dewdney 9780593522592
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.47Celebrate the holidays with Llama Llama and all his friends in this beautifully illustrated bilingual 8 x 8 storybook, based on the hit animated Netflix series! !Celebra las fiestas de fin de ano con... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza 9781840221190
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.88Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was... -
Baruch Spinoza's Ethics by Gary Slater
Booksplease Price: £6.68Baruch Spinoza's Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its... -
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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking 9780553819229 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.39When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another... -
Professor Renoir's Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights by Randall Platt 9780062643346
Booksplease Price: £13.22A gripping historical fiction friendship story that will grab everyone by the heartstrings and never let go. A giant, a dwarf, and three doomed circus animals . . . By her fourteenth birthday, Babe... -
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.31When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another...