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Across the Board:
The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems.
J.J. Watkins.
Approximating Perfection:
A Mathematician's Journey into the World of Mechanics.
L.P. Lebedev and M.J. Cloud.
Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters:
How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field.
M.J. Schell.
Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers:
Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs.
M.J. Schell.
Behind Deep Blue:
Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion.
F. Hsu.
Benjamin Franklin's Numbers:
An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey.
P.C. Pasles.
The Calculus Gallery:
Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue.
W. Dunham.
The Calculus of Friendship:
What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math.
S. Strogatz.
Celestial Encounters:
The Origins of Chaos and Stability.
F. Diacu and P. Holmes.
A Certain Ambiguity:
A Mathematical Novel.
G. Suri and H.S. Bal.
Chance and Chaos.
D. Ruelle.
Chases and Escapes:
The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion.
P.J. Nahin.
Complexities:
Women in Mathematics.
B.Anne Case and A.M. Leggett, eds.
Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics.
J. Changeux and A. Connes; M.B. DeBevoise, ed. and trans.
Digital Dice:
Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems.
P.J. Nahin.
Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers.
P.J. Nahin.
e: The Story of a Number.
E. Maor.
The Enjoyment of Math.
H. Rademacher and O. Toeplitz.
Euler's Gem:
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology.
D.S. Richeson.
Fearless Symmetry:
Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers (New Edition).
A. Ash and R. Gross.
Flatland:
A Romance of Many Dimensions.
E.A. Abbott.
Flatland:
The Movie Edition.
E.A. Abbott, T. Banchoff, et al.
Fly Me to the Moon:
An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel.
E. Belbruno.
Four Colors Suffice:
How the Map Problem Was Solved.
R. Wilson.
Fractals:
Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures.
H. Lauwerier; S. Gill-Hoffstadt, trans.
Gamma:
Exploring Euler's Constant.
J. Havil.
Graphic Discovery:
A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures.
H. Wainer.
Guesstimation:
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin.
L. Weinstein and J.A. Adam.
How Mathematicians Think:
Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics.
W. Byers.
How Round Is Your Circle?
Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet.
J. Bryant and C. Sangwin.
How to Solve It:
A New Aspect of Mathematical Method.
G. Polya.
An Imaginary Tale:
The Story of i [the square root of minus one].
P.J. Nahin.
The Importance of Being Fuzzy:
And Other Insights from the Border between Math and Computers.
A. Sangalli.
Impossible?
Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums.
J. Havil.
Infinity and the Mind:
The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite.
R. Rucker.
Invitation to Mathematics.
K. Jacobs.
Venus in Transit.
E. Maor.
The Mathematical Century:
The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years.
P. Odifreddi; A. Sangalli, trans.
The Mathematical Mechanic:
Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems.
M. Levi.
A Mathematical Nature Walk.
J.A. Adam.
Mathematicians:
An Outer View of the Inner World.
M. Cook and
The Mathematician's Brain:
A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them.
D. Ruelle.
The Mathematician's Mind:
The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field.
J. Hadamard.
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 1:
Induction and Analogy in Mathematics.
G. Polya.
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 2:
Patterns of Plausible Inference.
G. Polya.
Mathematics Elsewhere:
An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures.
M. Ascher.
Mathematics in Nature:
Modeling Patterns in the Natural World.
J.A. Adam.
Mathletics:
How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football.
W.L. Winston.
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt:
And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics.
P.J. Nahin.
Mythematics:
Solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules.
M. Huber.
The Nature of Space and Time.
S. Hawking and R. Penrose.
Negative Math:
How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent.
A.A. Martínez.
Nonplussed!
Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas.
J. Havil.
Picturing the Uncertain World:
How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display.
H. Wainer.
Polyominoes:
Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings.
S.W. Golomb.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics.
T. Gowers, J. Barrow-Green, et al., eds.
Pythagoras' Revenge:
A Mathematical Mystery.
A. Sangalli.
The Pythagorean Theorem:
A 4,000-Year History.
E. Maor.
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State:
Why Americans Vote the Way They Do.
A. Gelman.
Sacred Mathematics:
Japanese Temple Geometry.
F. Hidetoshi and T. Rothman.
Should We Risk It?
Exploring Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving.
D.M. Kammen and D.M. Hassenzahl.
Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics.
R.B. Banks.
Small Worlds:
The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness.
D.J. Watts.
The Story of Mathematics.
R. Mankiewicz.
Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations.
K. Ball.
To Infinity and Beyond:
A Cultural History of the Infinite.
E. Maor.
Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics.
R.B. Banks.
Trigonometric Delights.
E. Maor.
Trust in Numbers:
The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life.
T.M. Porter.
When Least Is Best:
How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible.
P.J. Nahin.
The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars:
An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions.
C.A. Pickover.

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