Mathematics in Science & Nature & Nonfiction eBooks

The Impossible Man

Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

by Patchen Barss ...

**A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024A Financial Times Best Book of 2024A Kirkus Best Book of 2024A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose—"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).**When he was six yea... ... Read more

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**A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024A Financial Times Best Book of 2024A Kirkus Best Book of 2024A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose—"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).**When he was six yea...
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Unraveling Topological Crochet

by Shiying Dong, Eve Torrence ...

Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
“Models in this book look magical. And as you cannot learn magic just from watching it being performed, so it is with topological crochet. In this book the magic of topological crochet is carefully revealed to the reader step by step. Follow it by making your own models and you will be rewarded with a deep understanding of topology and your own collection of beautiful crochet sculptures.”—Daina ... Read more

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“Models in this book look magical. And as you cannot learn magic just from watching it being performed, so it is with topological crochet. In this book the magic of topological crochet is carefully revealed to the reader step by step. Follow it by making your own models and you will be rewarded with a deep understanding of topology and your own collection of beautiful crochet sculptures.”—Daina
... Read more
Unequal

The Math of When Things Do and Don't Add Up

by Eugenia Cheng ...

Why the familiar equal sign is a gateway into math’s—and humanity’s—most profound questions  "Eugenia Cheng has opened up my mind to the wondrous world of pure mathematics in a way that I never thought was possible." ―Willow Smith, singer and actress  A New Scientist Best Book of the Year **Math is famous for its equations: 1 + 1 = 2, a^2 + b^2 = c^2, or y = mx + b. It can seem like that’s all ... Read more

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Why the familiar equal sign is a gateway into math’s—and humanity’s—most profound questions  "Eugenia Cheng has opened up my mind to the wondrous world of pure mathematics in a way that I never thought was possible." ―Willow Smith, singer and actress  A New Scientist Best Book of the Year **Math is famous for its equations: 1 + 1 = 2, a^2 + b^2 = c^2, or y = mx + b. It can seem like that’s all
... Read more
The Great Math War

How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics

by Jason Socrates Bardi ...

A stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead“A fascinating romp through one of the most consequential conflicts of the early 20th century.”—Johnjoe McFadden, author of Life on the EdgeAs the nineteenth century ended, mathematicians were celebrating a century of triumphs that ... Read more

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A stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead“A fascinating romp through one of the most consequential conflicts of the early 20th century.”—Johnjoe McFadden, author of Life on the EdgeAs the nineteenth century ended, mathematicians were celebrating a century of triumphs that
... Read more
The Little Book of Aliens

by Adam Frank ...

“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.” —Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsFrom astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life and the field of astrobiology, questions we stand ready to answer ... Read more

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“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.” —Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsFrom astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life and the field of astrobiology, questions we stand ready to answer
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Meta Math!

The Quest for Omega

by Gregory Chaitin ...

Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of ... Read more

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Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of
... Read more
The Waltz of Reason

The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy

by Karl Sigmund ...

**"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly)Winner of the Neumann Prize**“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic, ... Read more

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**"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly)Winner of the Neumann Prize**“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic,
... Read more
The Language of Mathematics

The Stories behind the Symbols

by Raúl Rojas ...

Translated by Eduardo Aparicio ...

A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories of the most commonly used symbols in mathematics, providing readers with an engaging introduction to the origins, evolution, ... Read more

$14.39 USD

A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories of the most commonly used symbols in mathematics, providing readers with an engaging introduction to the origins, evolution,
... Read more
Wonders in Motion

The Story of Dynamics

by David Acheson ...

What makes an aeroplane fly? Why aren't rollercoasters circular? And how long would it take to fall right through the Earth? This wide-ranging popular introduction to the science of motion tells the story of how dynamics developed, from Galileo's time to the present day. Including such exciting discoveries as the motion of the planets, the dynamics of spinning objects, wave motion, elasticity, and ... Read more

$18.99 USD

What makes an aeroplane fly? Why aren't rollercoasters circular? And how long would it take to fall right through the Earth? This wide-ranging popular introduction to the science of motion tells the story of how dynamics developed, from Galileo's time to the present day. Including such exciting discoveries as the motion of the planets, the dynamics of spinning objects, wave motion, elasticity, and
... Read more
The God Game

by Mike Hockney ...

What is the "answer to everything"? Pythagoras provided a glimpse of the answer 2,500 years ago when he declared, "All things are numbers". Mathematics is literally everything. Unlike science, mathematics offers certainty and absolute knowledge. Mathematics unifies science, religion and metaphysics and is the true Grand Unified Theory of Everything. No experiment can ever contradict a mathematical ... Read more

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What is the "answer to everything"? Pythagoras provided a glimpse of the answer 2,500 years ago when he declared, "All things are numbers". Mathematics is literally everything. Unlike science, mathematics offers certainty and absolute knowledge. Mathematics unifies science, religion and metaphysics and is the true Grand Unified Theory of Everything. No experiment can ever contradict a mathematical
... Read more
A Mind For Numbers

How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

by Barbara Oakley PhD ...

The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand ... Read more

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The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand
... Read more
Love Triangle

How Trigonometry Shapes the World

by Matt Parker ...

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible**Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly less bad at pool. Triangles underpin our day-to-day lives and civilization as we know it.In Love ... Read more

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**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible**Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly less bad at pool. Triangles underpin our day-to-day lives and civilization as we know it.In Love
... Read more
Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom ...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

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The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of
... Read more
How to Solve It

A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

by G. Polya ...

Series series Princeton Science Library
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight.In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out--from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have ... Read more

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A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight.In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out--from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have
... Read more
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Stripping the Dread from the Data

by Charles Wheelan ...

The best-selling author of Naked Economics defies the odds with a book about statistics that you’ll welcome and enjoy.Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The best-selling author of Naked Economics defies the odds with a book about statistics that you’ll welcome and enjoy.Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues
... Read more
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

by Morris Kline ...

Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
Practical, scientific, philosophical, and artistic problems have caused men to investigate mathematics. But there is one other motive which is as strong as any of these — the search for beauty. Mathematics is an art, and as such affords the pleasures which all the arts afford." In this erudite, entertaining college-level text, Morris Kline, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at New York University, ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Practical, scientific, philosophical, and artistic problems have caused men to investigate mathematics. But there is one other motive which is as strong as any of these — the search for beauty. Mathematics is an art, and as such affords the pleasures which all the arts afford." In this erudite, entertaining college-level text, Morris Kline, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at New York University,
... Read more
Calculus

An Intuitive and Physical Approach (Second Edition)

by Morris Kline ...

Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
Application-oriented introduction relates the subject as closely as possible to science. In-depth explorations of the derivative, the differentiation and integration of the powers of x, and theorems on differentiation and antidifferentiation lead to a definition of the chain rule and examinations of trigonometric functions, logarithmic and exponential functions, techniques of integration, polar ... Read more

$20.89 USD

Application-oriented introduction relates the subject as closely as possible to science. In-depth explorations of the derivative, the differentiation and integration of the powers of x, and theorems on differentiation and antidifferentiation lead to a definition of the chain rule and examinations of trigonometric functions, logarithmic and exponential functions, techniques of integration, polar
... Read more
Mathematics and the Physical World

by Morris Kline ...

Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
"Kline is a first-class teacher and an able writer. . . . This is an enlarging and a brilliant book." ― Scientific American"Dr. Morris Kline has succeeded brilliantly in explaining the nature of much that is basic in math, and how it is used in science." ― San Francisco ChronicleSince the major branches of mathematics grew and expanded in conjunction with science, the most effective way to ... Read more

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"Kline is a first-class teacher and an able writer. . . . This is an enlarging and a brilliant book." ― Scientific American"Dr. Morris Kline has succeeded brilliantly in explaining the nature of much that is basic in math, and how it is used in science." ― San Francisco ChronicleSince the major branches of mathematics grew and expanded in conjunction with science, the most effective way to
... Read more
Beyond Infinity

An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics

by Eugenia Cheng ...

**By one of our most imaginative mathematicians, a mind-expanding trip through the beauty—and the mysteries—of infinity  “Cheng does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." —*Wall Street Journal ***Imagine something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world—or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would ... Read more

$9.99 USD

**By one of our most imaginative mathematicians, a mind-expanding trip through the beauty—and the mysteries—of infinity  “Cheng does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." —*Wall Street Journal ***Imagine something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world—or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would
... Read more
How to Bake Pi

An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

by Eugenia Cheng ...

**One of the world's most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen  ****“Whimsical…rigorous and insightful.” —**New York TimesWhat 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 the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, ... Read more

$12.99 USD

**One of the world's most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen  ****“Whimsical…rigorous and insightful.” —**New York TimesWhat 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 the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered,
... Read more
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

by Eugenia Cheng ...

**How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world “Advanced mathematics could make a meaningful contribution to creating a better society. . . this book is proof it can.” —*Guardian ***In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In* The Art of Logic in an Illogical World*, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to ... Read more

$14.99 USD

**How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world “Advanced mathematics could make a meaningful contribution to creating a better society. . . this book is proof it can.” —*Guardian ***In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In* The Art of Logic in an Illogical World*, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to
... Read more
The Art of Uncertainty

How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

by David Spiegelhalter ...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by Forbes and The Economist“Valuable and rare.” —EconomistFrom our "greatest living statistical communicator" (Tim Harford) comes an invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding—and learning to embrace—risk and uncertainty in our daily lives.**How dangerous is our diet? How much of sports falls into the realm of luck? When authorities categorize a given event as ... Read more

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**Named a Best Book of the Year by Forbes and The Economist“Valuable and rare.” —EconomistFrom our "greatest living statistical communicator" (Tim Harford) comes an invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding—and learning to embrace—risk and uncertainty in our daily lives.**How dangerous is our diet? How much of sports falls into the realm of luck? When authorities categorize a given event as
... Read more
Is Math Real?

How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

by Eugenia Cheng ...

**One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answers      Winner of the *Los Angeles Times *Book PrizeA New Scientist Best Book of the Year   “Brilliant.” —*Popular Science  ***Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human ... Read more

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**One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answers      Winner of the *Los Angeles Times *Book PrizeA New Scientist Best Book of the Year   “Brilliant.” —*Popular Science  ***Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human
... Read more
The Golden Ratio

The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number

by Mario Livio ...

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago
... Read more

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