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The Clock Mirage
Named one of Book Riot’s Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time: a tour of clocks throughout the centuries—from the sandglass to the telomere—that reveals the physical, biological, …
Clock Mirage
Named one of Book Riot’s Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time “[A] mind-stretching book. . . . Skilfully written.”—John Carey, Sunday Times (London)A tour of clocks throughout …
Euclid in the Rainforest
Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to …
Enlightening Symbols
An entertaining look at the origins of mathematical symbolsWhile all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of …
Euclid In The Rainforest
This work talks about the logic of nature and the nature of logic. Like Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski's "A Tour of the Calculus", "Euclid in the …
Enlightening Symbols
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth …
What's Luck Got to Do with It?
Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are "hot" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin …
Zeno's Paradox
The fascinating story of an ancient riddle and what it reveals about the nature of time and space Three millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno constructed a series of logical …