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Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills by Paul J. Nahin 9780691175911
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.08In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional... -
Fantasia Mathematica by Clifton Fadiman 9780387949314
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.35Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes is now once again available. Ranging from the poignant to the comical via the simply surreal, these selections... -
Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual Design by Robert Bosch 9780691164069
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A fun and stunningly illustrated introduction to the art of linear optimizationLinear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering the best solution to a problem among a set of... -
Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution by David Stove 9781594032004
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Whatever your opinion of 'Intelligent Design,' you'll find Stove's criticism of what he calls 'Darwinism' difficult to stop reading. Stove's blistering attack on Richard Dawkins' 'selfish genes' and... -
Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution by David Stove 9781594031403
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Whatever your opinion of 'Intelligent Design,' you'll find Stove's criticism of what he calls 'Darwinism' difficult to stop reading. Stove's blistering attack on Richard Dawkins' 'selfish genes' and... -
Dear Martin / Dear Marcello: Gardner And Truzzi On Skepticism by Dana Richards 9789813203693
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £65.60In 1952, Martin Gardner wrote the book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has become a modern classic of the skeptical movement. He is best known as the Father of Recreational... -
Games of No Chance by Richard J. Nowakowski 9780521646529
Booksplease Price: £57.42Is Nine-Men Morris, in the hands of perfect players, a win for white or for black - or a draw? Can king, rook, and knight always defeat king and two knights in chess? What can Go players learn from... -
The Hundredth Monkey by Kendrick Frazier 9780879756550
Booksplease Price: £21.03The Hundredth Monkey takes its title from philosopher Ron Amundson's expose of the "Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon," a claim about collective consciousness. Forty-three essays by thirty-nine authors,... -
Number Magic and More by Grandpa Mike KH 9781291870695
Booksplease Price: £6.02Are you involved in entertaining, stimulating and educating bright, lively 8-12 year old children? We produced two, and one of them has now presented us with two equally bright and exhausting... -
The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Lewis Carroll 9780393245431
RRP: £38.50Booksplease Price: £35.36One summer afternoon in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a rowboat out on the Thames. With him were three young friends from the Liddell family-the sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice... -
Number Theory in Science and Communication: With Applications in Cryptography, Physics, Digital Information, Computing, and Self-Similarity by Manfred Schroeder 9783540852971
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £61.34"Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non-mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of applied mathematics . It stresses intuitive understanding... -
Number Theory in Science and Communication: With Applications in Cryptography, Physics, Digital Information, Computing, and Self-Similarity by Manfred Schroeder 9783642099014
Booksplease Price: £46.58"Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non-mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of applied mathematics . It stresses intuitive understanding... -
Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief by Kendrick Frazier
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.03Do polygraph tests really detect lies? Can memories be implanted? Is subliminal perception a reality? What is the relationship between science and belief? Experts in the fields of... -
Hex: A Playful Introduction by Ryan B Hayward 9781470464929
Booksplease Price: £30.37This book offers a gentle introduction to Hex, the classic board game created by Piet Hein and popularized by John Nash and Martin Gardner. The first three chapters cover rules, basic strategy, and... -
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification by Michael Martin 9780877229438
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72Logical reasons for being an atheistLogical reasons for being an atheistAbout the AuthorMichael Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and author of several books, including The Legal... -
The Hundredth Monkey: Best of Skeptical Inquirer by Kendrick Frazier 9781633889668
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.07The Hundredth Monkey takes its title from philosopher Ron Amundson's expose of the "Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon," a claim about collective consciousness. Forty-three essays by thirty-nine authors,... -
Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781591021254
Booksplease Price: £25.92Coleridge's greatest work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable... -
Homage to a Pied Puzzler by Alan Schoen
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £73.14The tradition of honoring Martin Gardner continues with this edited collection of articles by those who have been inspired by Gardner to enter mathematics, to enter magic, to bring magic into their... -
The Roving Mind by Isaac Asimov 9781573921817
Booksplease Price: £20.81Isaac Asimov's death on April 6, 1992, was a great loss to the world of literary science and freethought. The prolific author's vision is unmatched today, and his pointed honesty shines through in... -
First Course in Algorithms Through Puzzles Ryuhei Uehara 9789819680962
Booksplease Price: £56.12This textbook introduces basic algorithms and explains their analytical methods. All algorithms and methods introduced in this book are well known and frequently used in real programs. Intended to be... -
Paranormal Borderlands of Science by Kendrick Frazier 9780879751487
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.16Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic 'miracles'. Citizens report UFO sightings. Police departments call on psychics to... -
Fantastic Flexagons: Hexaflexagons and Other Flexible Folds to Twist and Turn by Nick Robinson
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92Are you ready to flip out? Hexaflexagons are six-sided, flat paper models that can be made to reveal hidden images through a series of flexes and folds. Flexagons were first introduced in a column... -
The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles Serhiy Grabarchuk 9781568814186
Booksplease Price: £26.09This collection of more than one hundred original and highly sophisticated puzzles presents challenges that require creative, "outside of the box" thinking. Many different types of puzzles are... -
Encounters With the Paranormal: Best of Skeptical Inquirer by Kendrick Frazier 9781633889705
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.44Do polygraph tests really detect lies? Can memories be implanted? Is subliminal perception a reality? What is the relationship between science and belief?Experts in the fields of physical/biological... -
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? by Paul Kurtz 9781591020646
Booksplease Price: £17.18In recent years a noticeable trend toward harmonizing the distinct worldviews of science and religion has become increasingly popular. Despite marked public interest, many leading scientists remain... -
The Mammoth Book of Brain Teasers by Terry Stickels
Booksplease Price: £25.63A three-tiered collection of 400 new original puzzles, simply divided into easy, medium and difficult - a simple structure for a brilliant new book by one of the world's leading puzzlemasters... -
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker 9780691191386
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.95A dynamic exploration of infinityIn Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms:... -
Who Knows?: A Study of Religious Consciousness by Raymond M. Smullyan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Is there really a God, and if so, what is God actually like? Is there an afterlife, and if so, is there such a thing as eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners, as many orthodox Christians and... -
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll 9780140434910
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap' Ever since Lewis... -
Mathematics in 10 Lessons: The Grand Tour by Jerry P. King 9781591026860
Booksplease Price: £15.85Many of us trained mainly in the humanities and liberal arts may respect mathematics as an essential scientific discipline, but have done very little mathematics and often feel intimidated by its... -
Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty by Greer Fitting 9780486482002
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.36Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings... -
Paranormal Borderlands of Science: Best of Skeptical Inquirer by Kendrick Frazier 9781633889620
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.95Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic "miracles." Citizens report UFO sightings. Police departments call on psychics to... -
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Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty by Greer Fitting 9780486482002 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £3.07Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings... -
Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics by Edward Rothstein
Booksplease Price: £17.69One is a science, the other an art; one useful, the other seemingly decorative, but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery and have been linked throughout history. "Emblems of... -
A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics by Peter Hilton
Booksplease Price: £31.83This easy-to-read 2010 book demonstrates how a simple geometric idea reveals fascinating connections and results in number theory, the mathematics of polyhedra, combinatorial geometry, and group... -
Surreal Numbers by Donald E. Knuth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86Nearly 30 years ago, John Horton Conway introduced a new way to construct numbers. Donald E. Knuth, in appreciation of this revolutionary system, took a week off from work on The Art of Computer... -
A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics by Peter Hilton 9780521764100
Booksplease Price: £87.92This easy-to-read 2010 book demonstrates how a simple geometric idea reveals fascinating connections and results in number theory, the mathematics of polyhedra, combinatorial geometry, and group... -
First Course in Algorithms Through Puzzles by Ryuhei Uehara 9789811331879
Booksplease Price: £41.36This textbook introduces basic algorithms and explains their analytical methods. All algorithms and methods introduced in this book are well known and frequently used in real programs. Intended to be... -
Logical Labyrinths Raymond Smullyan 9781568814438
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69This book features a unique approach to the teaching of mathematical logic by putting it in the context of the puzzles and paradoxes of common language and rational thought. It serves as a bridge... -
Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball 9781566634304
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the...