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Champions of Illusion: The Best Illusions of the Twenty-First Century

Champions of Illusion: The Best Illusions of the Twenty-First Century

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Author: Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from...
The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics

The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics

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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...
The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements

The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements

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Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how...
A Human's Guide To Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control

A Human's Guide To Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control

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Author: Kartik Hosanagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives,...
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical

Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical

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Author: Amir Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life

How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life

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Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe

Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe

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Author: Paul Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its...
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

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Author: Dr Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians...
Do Dice Play God?, The Mathematics of Uncertainty

Do Dice Play God?, The Mathematics of Uncertainty

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Author, Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 304 A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictable We would like to believe...
The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives

The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives

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Author: Yates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives. "Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives...
Amazing Brain Games for Clever Kids (R)

Amazing Brain Games for Clever Kids (R)

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Author: Gareth Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 From battleships and mind-bending spot the differences to mazes and number pyramids, there are plenty of puzzles to give...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life

Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life

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Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket...
Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions

Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions

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Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar takes twenty-five remarkable and memorable...
Beyond Coincidence

Beyond Coincidence

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Author: Brian King Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'A first-rate book' - The Observer Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It lands 140...
Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself

Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself

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Author: Jason Wilkes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Forget everything you've been taught about math. In Burn Math Class , Jason Wilkes takes the traditional approach to how we...
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

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Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality....
Physics in 50 Milestone Moments: A Timeline of Scientific Landmarks

Physics in 50 Milestone Moments: A Timeline of Scientific Landmarks

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Author: James Lees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Physics in 50 Milestone Moments is a lively, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to physics, its history, and its practitioners. Uniquely, it...
Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World

Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World

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Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics

Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics

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Author: Stephon Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don't know. Dance...
Mathmatters: The Hidden Calculations of Everyday Life

Mathmatters: The Hidden Calculations of Everyday Life

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Author: Chris Waring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Mathmatters is a humorous guide to the hidden calculations that are essential to everything we do. From making a cup of...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

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Author: Jevin D. West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity

Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity

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Author: Sander van der Linden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times Book of the Week One of Nature's best science picks 'A fascinating, in-depth investigation into the...
The Art of More: how mathematics created civilisation

The Art of More: how mathematics created civilisation

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Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains...
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

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Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex...
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It

Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It

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Author: Erica Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are...
Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians

Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians

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Author: Derek Rowntree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is...
The Basic Practice of Statistics

The Basic Practice of Statistics

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Author: David S. Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The Basic Practice of Statistics has become a bestselling textbook by focusing on how statistics are gathered, analyzed, and applied...
Visions of Infinity

Visions of Infinity

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Author: Ian Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them....
Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics

Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics

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Author: Michael Guillen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In Five Equations That Changed the World, Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the Science Editor on ABC-TV's Good Morning...
Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life

Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life

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Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...
Go Figure: The Marvellous Maths Workbook

Go Figure: The Marvellous Maths Workbook

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Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Maths is one of those tricky subjects that continues to throw us problems, even after our school days. From...
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor)

Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor)

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Author: Hugh Barker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the...
What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff

What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff

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Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist?...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

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Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...
Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers

Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers

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Author: Marc Chamberland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In Single Digits, Marc Chamberland takes readers on a fascinating exploration of small numbers, from one to nine, looking at their...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't

Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't

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Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained

Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained

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Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics

How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics

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Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do...
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

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Author: David Spiegelhalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking (New Yorker), discover how data literacy is changing the world and gives...
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life

Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life

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Author: Marcus Du Sautoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver--and how everyone can make their lives easier...
Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)

Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)

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Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER...
Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)

Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)

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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...
Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter

Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter

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Author: Roger Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits...
Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)

Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Simon Singh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution...
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

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Author: Nate Silver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER "One of the more momentous books of the decade." -The New...
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles

Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles

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Author: Alex Bellos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes...
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)

How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)

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Author: Tom Chivers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'Even one glass of wine a day raises the risk of cancer' 'Hate crimes have doubled in five years' 'Fizzy drinks...
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

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Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the...