Popular Mathematics

David Hilbert was arguably the leading mathematician of his generation. He was among the few mathematicians who could reshape mathematics, and was ...

This book provides a unique and unusual introduction to graph theory by one of the founding fathers, and will be of interest to all researchers in ...

If we actually received messages from the stars, what would we do with them? Who were the five strangest mathematicians in history? What are the te...

In The Moment of Proof, Benson attempts to convey to general readers the feeling of Eureka, the joy of discovery that mathematicians feel when they...

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.' John von NeumannMathematics ...

Graph Theory as I Have Known It provides a unique introduction to graph theory by one of the founding fathers, and will appeal to anyone interested...

How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 peopl...

Writing specifically for the statistically scared, Jeff Weaver exposes the mathematics behind statistical analysis and shows how an understanding o...

Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignoranc...

Since the dramatic discovery of the mathematical concept of chaos in 1989, the controversy of its contents has settled down. This revised edition o...

From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Alle...

Why seemingly unrelated mathematical truths are connected in simple and beautiful equations continues to stump even mathematicians. This recreation...

We underestimate the importance of luck in our lives. We think too highly of the golfer who wins the British Open and, if he loses the next tournam...

Strange happenstances and chance encounters have puzzled us for centuries. This fun and fascinating book takes readers on a journey through the mat...

We're barraged with statistics every day about health risks, life expectancy, and the chances of success, but to most of us all these numbers and p...

Our lives are governed by chance. But what, exactly, is chance? In this book, accomplished statistician and storyteller Bart K. Holland takes us on...

'Here is the story of algebra.' With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abrah...

Inside this small (but perfectly formed) hardback there lurks some of the most devilishly difficult mathematical brainteasers human beings have yet...

In this volume, world-leading puzzle designers, puzzle collectors, mathematicians, and magicians continue the tradition of honoring Martin Gardner,...

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