Search results for “[subject: mathematics-general]”

• 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): John Allen Paulos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralWhat two things could be more different than numbers and stories? Numbers are abstract, certain, and eternal, ...

• Author(s): Joseph Mazur • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralA mathematical guide to understanding why life can seem to be one big coincidence-and why the odds of just about ev...

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

• Author(s): Eugenia Cheng • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: InfinityHow one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is inf...

• 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): 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): 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: 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): Richard Elwes • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyHow humanity's long pursuit of ever-larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Information Age...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyIt is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them...

• 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): 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): Erica Thompson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AppliedWhy mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are worried about the spre...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Recreations & GamesAcclaimed writer and mathematician Ian Stewart's third miscellany of mathematical curios and conundrums. In Professor Stewart's Ca...

• 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): Karl Sigmund • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Philosophy"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly) "...

• Author(s): Calvin C. Clawson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Recreations & GamesThere are two kinds of people: those who can do mathematics, and then there's the rest of us. Math is boring. Females have no...

• 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): Marcus Du Sautoy • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AppliedOne of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver--and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simp...

• 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): Jefferson Hane Weaver • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralWriting specifically for the statistically scared, Jeff Weaver exposes the mathematics behind statistical ...

• Author(s): Jason Socrates Bardi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyA stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and wi...

• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyIn 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extr...

• Author(s): Jason Socrates Bardi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyNow regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovat...

• Author(s): Marcus Du Sautoy • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Philosophy"A stunning book ... a thrilling read" (Peter Frankopan) that reveals how creative people can harness the profound and produc...

• 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): 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): Marcus Du Sautoy • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysA "fun" and "unexpected" (The Economist) global tour of the world's greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them Where should you m...

• Author(s): Shing-Tung Yau | Steve Nadis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Complex AnalysisString theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. Accor...

• Author(s): Brian Butterworth • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive ScienceAn entertaining investigation of the numerical abilities of animals and our own appetite for arithmetic The philosopher Bertrand R...

• Author(s): Benoit Mandelbrot | Richard L. Hudson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralFrom the inventor/founder of fractal geometry, the award-winning book that turns modern financial theory on its head.

• Author(s): Eugenia Cheng • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: LogicHow both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcom...

• Author(s): Clifford N. Will • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - RelativityFrom the Back CoverFirst published in 1986, this award-winning account of how Einstein's theory holds up after more than seventy-...

• Author(s): Erez Yoeli • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Game TheoryTwo  MIT economists  show  how  game theory--the ultimate theory of rationality--explains irrational behavior   We like to think of ourselves as...