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Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant by Julian Havil 9780691178103
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.06Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, ?, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is ?,, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a... -
Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums by Julian Havil 9780691150024
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25In Nonplussed!, popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible?, another marvelous... -
Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas by Julian Havil 9780691148229
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.24Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely... -
John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy by Julian Havil 9780691155708
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.00John Napier (1550-1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms--an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon lead to the development of their mechanical equivalent in the... -
The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On by Julian Havil 9780691247663
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.24An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first centuryThe ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that... -
Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic by Julian Havil 9780691206134
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.31Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by... -
Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic by Julian Havil 9780691180052
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by... -
Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations by Keith Ball
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.59How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them...