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A strange wilderness
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Amir D. Aczel |
"Bestselling popular science author Amir Aczel selects the most fascinating individuals and stories in the history of mathematics, presenting a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personaliti… |
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I died for beauty
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Marjorie Senechal |
"In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathemati… |
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No better time
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Molly Knight Raskin |
The brief remarkable life of Danny Lewin The Genius who transformed the Internet. About Akamai Technologies. |
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Struck by genius
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Jason Padgett |
"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movem… |
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Einstein's Italian mathematicians
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Judith R. Goodstein |
An exchange of information between Italian Tullio Levi-Civita and Hungarian born Theodore Von Kármán, based on mathematics by Italian Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, helped provide the mathematical backgro… |
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An accidental statistician
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George E. P. Box |
Celebrating the life of an admired pioneer in statisticsIn this captivating and inspiring memoir, world-renowned statistician George E.P. Box offers a firsthand account of his life and statistical wo… |
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Conversations with a Mathematician
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Gregory J. Chaitin |
G. J. Chaitin is at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. He has shown that God plays dice not only in quantum mechanics, but even in the foundations of mathematics, where Chaitin dis… |
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Niels Henrik Abel and his Times
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Arild Stubhaug |
Read about the dramatic life of an outstanding mathematical genius: Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829). Arild Stubhaug, who is both a historian and a mathematician, has written the definitive biography of… |
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Transcending Tradition
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Birgit Bergmann |
A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of… |
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Vito Volterra
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Angelo Guerraggio |
<p>Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was one of the most famous representatives of Italian science in his day. Angelo Guerragio and Giovanni Paolini analyze Volterra’s most important contributions to mathema… |
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Ada's algorithm
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James Essinger |
Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer… |
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Alan Turing
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Dermot Turing |
**Following hot on the heels of The Imitation Game, this is the first modern biography of Alan Turing by a member of the family—Alan’s nephew, Sir Dermot Turing.**
Alan Turing was an extraordinary… |
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Calculus gems
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Simmons, George Finlay |
The first half of Calculus Gems, entitled Brief Lives, is a biological history of mathematics from the earliest times to the late nineteenth century. The author shows that science-and mathematics in … |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
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Robert Kanigel |
A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with Engli… |
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The Bride of Science
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Benjamin Woolley |
Benjamin Woolley explores Ada Lovelace's life. He offers a fascinating insight into how Ada personified the changing times during the first half of the 19th century. Wooley shows Ada's struggle to r… |
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George Green
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D. M. Cannell |
xxvi, 265 p., [8] p. of plates : 23 cm |
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How the Universe Got Its Spots
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Janna Levin |
"In prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access to… |
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Bourbaki
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Maurice Mashaal |
En 1935, une poignée de jeunes mathématiciens se réunissent dans un café du quartier latin à Paris. Leur but: rédiger un traité d'analyse qui permettra de réorganiser et de clarifier les mathématique… |
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Alan M. Turing
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Sara Stoney Turing |
"'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, y… |
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The Difference Engine
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Doron Swade |
"In 1821 an inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage, was poring over a set of mathematical tables. Finding error after error Babbage exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed… |
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