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• Author(s): David Stipp • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyAn award-winning science writer introduces us to mathematics using the extraordinary equation that unites five of mathematics' mos...

• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralThere are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh corgis -- and us -- is innate. What ...

• Author(s): Arthur Benjamin • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Study & TeachingThe world's greatest mental mathematical magician takes us on a spellbinding journey through the wonders...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Reference

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysMathematician Ian Stewart tells readers what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to th...

• Author(s): Jason Wilkes • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Study & TeachingA manifesto for a mathematical revolution Forget everything you've been taught about math. In Burn Math Class, Jason Wilkes takes th...

• Author(s): George Lakoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyThis book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via concep...

• Author(s): Amir D. Aczel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyOver three hundred years ago, a French scholar scribbled a simple theorem in the margin of a book. It would become the world's m...

• Author(s): Eugenia Cheng • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mathematical AnalysisAn exciting "new perspective on equality and difference" (Stephon Alexander) that shows why the familiar equal sign isn't just a ma...

• Author(s): Eugenia Cheng • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyOne of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a "brilliant" and "mesmerizing" (Popular Science) new way to look at math...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralMathematics has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities in nature - the secret structure of a cloud or the hidden rhythms of...

• Author(s): Eugenia Cheng • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyOne of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a "brilliant" and "mesmerizing" (Popular Science) new way to look at math...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysA prize-winning popular science writer uses mathematical modeling to explain the cosmos. In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilar...

• Author(s): David Darling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Algebra - AbstractA teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematics Everyone has stared at the crumpled page ...

• Author(s): Steve Nadis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Relativity"A must-read."―Avi Loeb, New York Times-bestselling author of Extraterrestrial One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half ...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyThe seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it. Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newt...

• Author(s): Eugenia Cheng • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays & NarrativesOne of the world's most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen in this "whimsical...rigorous and...

• Author(s): Sabine Hossenfelder • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: HistoryIn this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beau...