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Author: Clifford A. Pickover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 From the ingenious author of The Math Book and The Physics Book comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty...

Author: Alex Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of...

Mathematics & Science Bargain Book Box From the quantum world and the mathematics of infinity to the secret life of trees and the science of human touch — this box...

"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our...

The first ever maths book to be a No.1 Bestseller shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world What makes a bridge wobble when it's not...

Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news...

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...

Author: Simon Singh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat's...

"This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN "Kit Yates is...

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*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025* Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for inspiration. Our...

'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail. Brian Butterworth doesn't just tell us stories of animals with numerical abilities: he tells us about the underlying science....

This textbook puts design at the center of introducing students to the course in mass and energy balances in chemical engineering. Employers and accreditations increasingly stress the importance of design...

Author: Dan HurleyBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Aura, 2023This engaging collection, Eureka!: Logic Puzzles For Really Smart People, presents a series of intricate challenges designed to sharpen the mind and test deductive reasoning....

A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics...

This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study...

The Ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. A German mathematician was driven mad by...

When we learn about abstract mathematical concepts - from prime numbers and fractals to aspects of calculus - the most common question is often: when on earth will I need...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' Oliver Burkeman 'A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem' Will Storr 'Witty, lively and best of...

Your expert guide to mastering the numbers behind the mysteries of modern mathematics. What with the mysteries of infinity and imaginary numbers, the power of mathematical modelling, and the logic...