Popular Mathematics

Why 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 ...

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku 2eriously uses this popular craze...

This is the fascinating story of two women who lives were guided by a passion for mathematics and an insatiable curiosity to know and understand th...

What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers f...

'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help ...

It is no secret that most people avoid mathematics, in large measure because elementary school teachers have never done much to motivate a love of ...

Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One? Is Four really so square and why are there Seven days of the week, Seven deadly s...

Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the ...

Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. For anyone who loves the challenge of Su Doku but manages to solve them with...

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results fou...

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this u...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend...

This book is a charming collection of puzzles created by Yoshiyuki Kotani, one of the founding members of the Academy of Recreational Mathematics, ...

At first glance, the concept of equality in maths seems unambiguous. When we see the equality sign, we think of 'solving for x' or balancing two si...

Can one prove that 1 + 1 = 2? How long is the coastline of Britain? Which US president proved Pythagoras' theorem on right-angled triangles? Who or...

Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.Rand...

The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth centuryGeorge Pólya's perennial bestseller ha...

In China, lots of excellent maths students takes an active part in various maths contests and the best six senior high school students will be sele...

In China, lots of excellent maths students takes an active part in various maths contests and the best six senior high school students will be sele...

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the str...

Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them...

Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of Physics World, including - accessibly described here ...

The main purpose of this captivating book is to help instructors in popularizing mathematics and other subjects by considering them in a unique mul...

The book goes through middle school mathematics and techniques and methods of its teaching. It is meant to aid parents who wish to be involved in t...

The main purpose of this captivating book is to help instructors in popularizing mathematics and other subjects by considering them in a unique mul...

Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time — or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lif...

Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time — or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lif...

Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would ...

From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere -- and they are fundame...

A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behavio...

This is a mathematics book written specifically for the enjoyment of non-mathematicians and those who “hated math in school.” The book is organized...

This is a mathematics book written specifically for the enjoyment of non-mathematicians and those who “hated math in school.” The book is organized...

GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the ...

Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clif...