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“I am an assiduous reader of John Casti’s books. He is a real scientific intellectual.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author o...

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There are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh corgis—and us—is innate. What innate calcula...

He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine -- but it would nearly cost him his life. Semyo...

Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of ...

Animals And Humans Have Been Using Numbers To Navigate Their Way Through The Jungle Of Life Ever Since We All Evolved On This Planet. But This Book Will Hel...

Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thi...

A groundbreaking book about math and language, from the well-known NPR commentator Keith Devlin. Publishers Weekly Recently, luminaries like Steven Pinke...

John Mighton’s JUMP program is changing the way math is taught, and his powerful math workbooks give children the tools they need to master this crucial s...

A Compelling Case for Intelligent Design Based on Revolutionary Discoveries in Science In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer has written the first com...

John Mighton’s JUMP program is changing the way math is taught, and his powerful math workbooks give children the tools they need to master this crucial s...

This Book Covers 250 Milestones In Mathematical History, Beginning Millions Of Years Ago With Ancient Ant Odometers And Moving Through Time To Our Modern-da...

"Ted Porter's work on the history of quantification transforms our understanding of the social meaning of numbers, and of the social meaning of objectivit...

Math's infinite mysteries unfold in this new paperback edition of the bestselling The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odomete...

Volume 1 of a two-volume history — from Egyptian papyri and medieval maps to modern graphs and diagrams. Non-technical chronological survey with thousands...

The Heart Of Mathematics Addresses The Big Ideas Of Mathematics (many Of Which Are Cutting Edge Research Topics) In A Non-computational Style Intended To Be...

This Work Has Been Selected By Scholars As Being Culturally Important And Is Part Of The Knowledge Base Of Civilization As We Know It. This Work Is In The P...