Best Sellers in Mathematics
-- Library Journal, 6/18/2009
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1) Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Gowers, Timothy
Princeton University Press
2008. ISBN 0691118809 [9780691118802]. $99
2) Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
Richeson, David S.
Princeton University Press
2008. ISBN 0691126771 [9780691126777]. $27.95
3) Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry
Van Brummelen, Glen
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691129738 [9780691129730]. $39.50
4) Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern
Devlin, Keith J.
Basic Books
2008. ISBN 0465009107 [9780465009107]. $24.95
5) Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life
Fisher, Len
Basic Books
2008. ISBN 0465009387 [9780465009381]. $15.95
6) Plato’s Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics
Gray, Jeremy
Princeton University Press
2008. ISBN 0691136106 [9780691136103]. $45
7) What Is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
Tubbs, Robert
Johns Hopkins University
2009. ISBN 0801890179 [9780801890178]. $60
8) Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life; An Agony in Eight Fits
Wilson, Robin J.
W.W. Norton
2008. ISBN 0393060276 [9780393060270]. $24.95
9) Is God a Mathematician?
Livio, Mario
Simon & Schuster
2009. ISBN 074329405x [9780743294058]. $26
10) Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe
Bardi, Jason Socrates
John Wiley
2009. ISBN 0470149094 [9780470149096]. $27.95
11) Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
Robson, Eleanor
Princeton University Press
2008. ISBN 069109182X [9780691091822]. $49.50
12) Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Hardy, G.H.
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 0199219850 [9780199219858]. $150
13) Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
Graham, Loren R.
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 0674032934 [9780674032934]. $25.95
14) Adventures in Group Theory: Rubik’s Cube, Merlin’s Machine, and Other Mathematical Toys
Joyner, David
Johns Hopkins University
2008. ISBN 0801890128 [9780801890123]. $60
15) Rational Decisions
Binmore, Ken
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691130744 [9780691130743]. $40
16) Statistical Rules of Thumb
Van Belle, Gerald
John Wiley
2008. ISBN 0470144483 [9780470144480]. $63.95
17) Statistics: A Very Short Introduction
Hand, David J.
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 019923356X [9780199233564]. $11.95
18) Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Meadows, Donella H.
Chelsea Green
2008. ISBN 1603580557 [9781603580557]. $19.95
19) Rigorous Mathematical Thinking: Conceptual Formation in the Mathematics Classroom
Kinard, James T.
Cambridge University Press
2008. ISBN 0521876850 [9780521876858]. $80
20) Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life
Blastland, Michael
Gotham Books
2009. ISBN 1592404235 [9781592404230]. $22
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