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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
Aczel, Amir D.
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Four Walls Eight Windows First
Printing 2000
ISBN 156858105X Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. “In the late 19th century, a brilliant mathematician languished in an asylum. His greatest accomplishment, the result of a series of leaps of insight, was his pioneering understanding of the nature of infinity. This is the story of George Cantor...” Illustrated. SCIENCE,MATHEMATICIANS,INFINITY,KABBALAH,CANTOR Book# 6881 |
US$12.00 |
Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free
Kaplan, Robert and Ellen Kaplan
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Oxford University Press First Edition 2007 ISBN: 0195147448 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. “Now, in Out of the Labyrinth, Robert and Ellen Kaplan - the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994 - reveal the secrets behind their highly successful approach, leading readers out of the labyrinth and into the joyous embrace of mathematics.” MATH,MATHEMATICIANS,THE MATH CIRCLE,EDUCATION Book #7797 |
US$12.50 |
A Beautiful Mind
Nasar, Sylvia
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Simon & Schuster
2001
ISBN
0743224574 Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who - thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community - emerged after decades of ghost-like existence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. SCIENCE,MATHEMATICS,MATHEMATICIANS,SCHIZOPRENIA,MENTAL ILLNESS,GENIUS,NOBEL LAUREATES,NOBEL PRIZE,ECONOMICS Book# 6011 |
US$7.00 |
The Importance of Being Fuzzy and Other Insights from the Border between Math and Computers
Sangalli, Arturo
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Princeton University Press First
Edition 1998 ISBN: 0691001448 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. How has computer science changed mathematical thinking? In this first ever comprehensive survey of the subject for popular science readers, Arturo Sangalli explains how computers have brought a new practicality to mathematics and mathematical applications. COMPUTER SCIENCE,COMPUTING,FUZZY SYSTEMS Book #7633 |
US$12.50 |
The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
Swade, Doron
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Abacus 2001 ISBN: 0349112398 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. The story of nineteenth-century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage’s quest to design and build “mechanical calculating engines”. Illustrated. MATHEMATICIANS,SCIENCE,INVENTORS,COMPUTERS,INTERNET Book #7628 |
US$12.00 |
The Honors Class: Hilbert’s Problems and Their Solvers
Yandell, Benjamin H.
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A.K.Peters Fourth Printing
2002 ISBN: 1568811411 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In 1900, David Hilbert, perhaps the most respected mathematician of his time, charted the course of the world of 20th century mathematics during an address at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The collection of problems that he presented in that address has become a guiding inspiration to many mathematicians... Illustrated. SCIENCE,HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS,BIOGRAPHY Book #7796 |
US$18.50 |