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A Mathematician's Lament
"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."-Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR's Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has …
The Unfinished Game
In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was …
The Joy of Sets
This book provides an account of those parts of contemporary set theory of direct relevance to other areas of pure mathematics. The intended reader is either an advanced-level …
Experimentelle Mathematik
Papier und Bleistift wurden lange als die einzigen Hilfsmittel der Mathematiker betrachtet (einige würden hier auch noch den Papierkorb dazuzählen). Wie in vielen anderen Gebieten …
Finding Fibonacci
A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval …
Numbers Behind NUMB3RS
The companion to the hit CBS crime series Numb3rs presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crime Using the popular CBS prime-time TV crime series …
Constructibility
Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have …
MATHEMATICS
In this computerized world, mathematics has had an impact on various aspects of our lives, yet most people believe they cannot hope to understand or enjoy the subject. This work …
All the Math that's Fit to Print
Do you expect to find articles about mathematics in your daily newspaper? If you are a reader of The Guardian you do, or at least you did during the second half of the 1980s. This …
Language at Work
People are very creative in their use of language. This observation was made convincingly by Chomsky in the 1950s and is generally accepted in the scientific communities concerned …
Mathematics : The Science of Patterns
"An attractive and wonderful book about an attractive, wonderful, and woefully misunderstood subject. If you think that mathematics is only about numbers and is only useful for …
Sets, Functions and Logic
The purpose of this book is to provide the student beginning undergraduate mathematics with a solid foundation in the basic logical concepts necessary for most of the subjects …