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Elliptic Tales
Avner AshCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathemat...
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Save 1% Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Princeton University PressCurrent price €117.99Original price €118.99An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquityEuclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us, and their co...
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Do Plants Know Math?
Christophe GoléCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over themCharles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant sp...
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Routes of Learning
Ivor Grattan-GuinnessCurrent price €43.99Original price €44.99This seminal collection gathers together many general writings of one of the world's leading historians of mathematics. Organized thematically, the...
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Ivor Grattan-GuinnessCurrent price €84.99Original price €85.99This seminal collection gathers together many general writings of one of the world's leading historians of mathematics. Organized thematically, the...
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Discrete Charm of the Machine
Ken Steiglitz€22.99The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog televi...
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Tales of Impossibility
David S. Richeson€23.99A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problem...
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Games for Your Mind
Jason RosenhouseCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreationLogic puzzles were first introduced to the pub...
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Games for Your Mind
Jason RosenhouseCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreationLogic puzzles were first introduced to the pub...
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Golden Ticket
Lance Fortnow€21.99The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. Simply stated, it asks whether every problem wh...
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic
Princeton University Press€18.50Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the...
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How to Read Historical Mathematics
Benjamin WardhaughCurrent price €43.99Original price €44.99Writings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we're familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the hi...
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Mathematics of Secrets
Joshua Holden€19.99Explaining the mathematics of cryptographyThe Mathematics of Secrets takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography—the...
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Crest of the Peacock
George Gheverghese JosephCurrent price €43.99Original price €44.99From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it cl...
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Leonhard Euler
Ronald S. CalingerCurrent price €43.99Original price €44.99An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), one of th...
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Finding Fibonacci
Keith Devlin€19.99A mathematician’s ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci’s storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematici...
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Counting
Benjamin WardhaughCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...
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When Least Is Best
Paul J. Nahin€19.99A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve themWhat is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet?...
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Fermat’s Last Theorem
Simon Singh€16.99Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light ...
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History of Mathematics
Roger L. Cooke€134.99Praise for the Second Edition "An amazing assemblage of worldwide contributions in mathematics and, in addition to use as a course book, a valuable...
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Mathematica
David BessisCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists Math has a reputat...
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Babylonian Theorem
Peter S. Rudman€25.99A physicist explores the history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians, showing how their scribes in the era from 2000 to 1600 BCE use...
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Save 4% Everything Is Predictable
Tom ChiversCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' Oliver Burkeman'A remarkable book a...
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In Pursuit of Zeta-3
Paul J. NahinCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over h...
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