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Introduction to Mathematical Thinking by Professor Keith Devlin 9780615653631
RRP: £12.24Booksplease Price: £9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615653631Author Professor Keith DevlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Keith DevlinPublisher... -
Logic and Information by Keith Devlin
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.80Intelligence can be characterised both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater or lesser... -
Logic and Information by Keith Devlin 9780521410304
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.87Intelligence can be characterised both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater or lesser... -
The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory by Keith Devlin 9781461269410
Booksplease Price: £52.18This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of "naive" set theory, it develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the... -
The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory by Keith Devlin 9780387940946
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £36.82This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of "naive" set theory, it develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the... -
Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning by Keith Devlin
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math. Aimed primarily at teachers and education researchers, but... -
The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Of Our Time by Keith Devlin 9780465017300
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In 2000, the Clay Foundation announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the... -
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern by Keith Devlin 9780465018963
Booksplease Price: £18.06In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict... -
Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin 9780691174860
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of... -
Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin 9780691192307
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02A 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,... -
Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition Keith Devlin (Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA) 9781584884491
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £66.88Keith Devlin. You know him. You've read his columns in MAA Online, you've heard him on the radio, and you've seen his popular mathematics books. In between all those activities and his own research,... -
Life by the Numbers by Keith J. Devlin 9780471328223
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.13Why do leopards grow spots when tigers grow stripes? Is the universe round, square, or some other shape? How do the dimples in a golf ball give it greater lift? Is there such a thing as a public... -
Mathematics by Keith J. Devlin 9780231116398
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.43Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem,... -
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"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... -
Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War by Margaret Wertheim 9780393317244
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.31Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated... -
The Computer as Crucible: An Introduction to Experimental Mathematics by Jonathan M. Borwein 9781568813431
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Keith Devlin and Jonathan Borwein, two well-known mathematicians with expertise in different mathematical specialties but with a common interest in experimentation in mathematics, have joined forces... -
Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart 9780674237513
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.18"Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read."-Wall Street Journal"This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math."-Science NewsBecause we... -
The Changing Shape of Geometry: Celebrating a Century of Geometry and Geometry Teaching by Chris Pritchard
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £48.81Celebrating a century of geometry and geometry teaching, this book will give the reader an enjoyable insight into all things geometrical. There are a wealth of popular articles including sections on... -
Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives Peter Olofsson (Trinity University) 9781118898901
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £37.12Praise for the First Edition "If there is anything you want to know, or remind yourself, about probabilities, then look no further than this comprehensive, yet wittily written and enjoyable,... -
Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives Peter Olofsson (Trinity University) 9780470624456
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £34.57What are the chances? Find out in this entertaining exploration ofprobabilities in our everyday lives "If there is anything you want to know, or remind yourself, about probabilities, then look no... -
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose 9780521785723
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.50Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy... -
The Mending of Broken Bones: A Modern Guide to Classical Algebra Paul Lockhart 9780674296329
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.86A joyful and intimate celebration of the beauty and creativity of algebra from one of the foremost math educators of our time.For many of us, algebra conjures up memories of dull classes spent... -
Maths for Mums and Dads by Rob Eastaway
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.30Looking for a practical maths guide to help with home schooling? Maths for Mums and Dads is the solution.Maths for Mums and Dads guides you through the basics of primary school maths and covers the... -
Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical Johnny Ball 9781472939975
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history - the story of mathematics. By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical... -
Euler's Pioneering Equation: The most beautiful theorem in mathematics by Robin Wilson
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.67In 1988 The Mathematical Intelligencer, a quarterly mathematics journal, carried out a poll to find the most beautiful theorem in mathematics. Twenty-four theorems were listed and readers were... -
The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart 9780465032402
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.01Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of living beings. Within the past ten years, however, mathematicians have proven that they... -
1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics by David Acheson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42David Acheson's extraordinary little book makes mathematics accessible to everyone. From very simple beginnings he takes us on a thrilling journey to some deep mathematical ideas. On the way, via... -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 by Mircea Pitici
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25This anthology brings together the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, "The Best Writing on... -
Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic by Anita Burdman Feferman
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.57Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern... -
Crimes and Mathdemeanors by Leith Hathout
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solving mysteries. The main character is Ravi, a 14-year-old math... -
Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Professor Ian Stewart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian... -
The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox Leonard M. Wapner (El Camino College, Torrance, California, USA) 9781568813271
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Take an apple and cut it into five pieces. Would you believe that these five pieces can be reassembled in such a fashion so as to create two apples equal in shape and size to the original? Would you... -
A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had... -
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown 9780465031443
Booksplease Price: £20.82The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading... -
The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life by Eugenia Cheng 9781108708449
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract... -
The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life by Eugenia Cheng
Booksplease Price: £21.99Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract... -
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel 9780465064953
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso,... -
How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng 9780465097678
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.69What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to... -
Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics Sarah Glaz 9781568813417
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.11Strange Attractors is a collection of approximately 150 poems with strong links to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The common theme is love, and the editors draw from its various...