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  • Mathematical Brainteasers with Surprising Solutions

    by Owen O'Shea ...
    Proves that math can be serious fun! If you like any kind of game at all, you'll enjoy the amazing mathematical brainteasers in this entertaining book. No special mathematics training is needed. With an emphasis on puzzling word problems with surprising solutions, the author presents his mathematical hurdles in order of increasing difficulty. Many appear deceptively simple, such as: How many ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mathematical Card Magic

    Fifty-Two New Effects

    by Colm Mulcahy ...
    Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
    Mathematical card effects offer both beginning and experienced magicians an opportunity to entertain with a minimum of props. Featuring mostly original creations, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects presents an entertaining look at new mathematically based card tricks.Each chapter contains four card effects, generally starting with simple applications of a particular mathematical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Joy Of X

    A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

    by Steven Strogatz ...
    “Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!”—Scientific AmericanMany people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Improbability Principle

    Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day

    by David J. Hand ...
    "Human beings are a superstitious lot; we see patterns everywhere. But as Hand makes clear in this enlightening book, it all comes down to the math." —Jennifer Ouellette, The New York Times Book ReviewA Success Magazine Best Book of the YearIn The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anythi... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Here's Looking at Euclid

    A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math

    by Alex Bellos ...
    Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics is a remarkable place."Bellos has traveled all around the globe and has plunged into history to uncover ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pre-Calculus

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    This 4-page laminated guide includes basic principles of calculus, including: functions, coordinate geometry, exponents & logarithms, permutations & combinations, synthetic division, matrices and more. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Complete Book of Fun Maths

    250 Confidence-boosting Tricks, Tests and Puzzles

    by Philip Carter, Ken Russell ...
    The idea of this book is to help build confidence with maths via a series of tests and puzzles. After a gentle 'warm-up' section, the puzzles and tests get progressively more challenging over the course of the book. There is a hints section for readers who get stuck, as well as a complete set of answers for every test at the back of the book.After the 'warm-up' section, there are puzzles and tests ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • Combinatorics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robin Wilson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How many possible sudoku puzzles are there? In the lottery, what is the chance that two winning balls have consecutive numbers? Who invented Pascal's triangle? (it was not Pascal) Combinatorics, the branch of mathematics concerned with selecting, arranging, and listing or counting collections of objects, works to answer all these questions. Dating back some 3000 years, and initially consisting ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fluke

    The Math and Myth of Coincidence

    by Joseph Mazur ...
    A mathematical guide to understanding why life can seem to be one big coincidence-and why the odds of just about everything are better than we would think.What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Code Word Puzzles

    Maintain Your Brain, #10

    by Ted Summerfield ...
    Series Book 10 - Maintain Your Brain
    73 Code Word Puzzles with quotes and trivia from Robert Orben, Dora Galitzki, P. J. O'rourke, Bill Cosby and others. Trivia and quotes on plants, the Beatles, the environment, M&M's, Sesame Street, Telly Savalas, fish, football and many other wonderful persons, places, things or thoughts.Easy, medium, hard, and helpless levels of play, with each level having less clues than the preceding. Helpless ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Number Freak

    From 1 to 200- The Hidden Language of Numbers Revealed

    by Derrick Niederman ...
    A compulsively readable look at the secret language of numbers- their role in nature, movies, science, and everything in between.What do Fight Club, wallpaper patterns, George Balanchine's Serenade, and Italian superstitions have in common? They're all included in the entry for the number 17 in this engaging book about numbers- detailing their unique properties, patterns, appeal, history, and lore ... Read more

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  • The Calculus of Friendship

    What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math

    by Steven Strogatz ...
    The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relationship unique is that it is based almost entirely on a shared love of calculus. For them, calculus is more than a branch of mathematics; it is a game they love playing together, a constant when all else ... Read more

    $17.29 USD