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Unlocking the Secrets of Existence
A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour ...
Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of living beings. Within the past ten years...
Like Flatland, Only More So
First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathemati...
In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the th...
Sixteen columns from the French edition of Scientific American feature oddball characters and wacky wordplay in a mathematical wonderland of puzzles a...
Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and ches...
A new edition of a classic textbook on complex analysis with an emphasis on translating visual intuition to rigorous proof....
Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes ba...
The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a Young Mathematician tells readers what Ian Stewart ...
Since 1973, Galois Theory has been educating undergraduate students on Galois groups and classical Galois theory. In Galois Theory, Fourth Edition, ma...
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to 10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would sp...
Opening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and riddle...
Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely resp...
A retitled and revised edition of Ian Stewart's The Problem of Mathematics, this is the perfect guide to today's mathematics. Read about the latest di...
A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZE Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few s...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu' Ti...
The History of Symmetry
At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, ...
Like its wildly popular predecessors Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a ...
The New Mathematics of Chaos
Since the dramatic discovery of the mathematical concept of chaos in 1989, the controversy of its contents has settled down. This revised edition of D...
Since 1973, Galois theory has been educating undergraduate students on Galois groups and classical Galois theory. In Galois Theory, Fifth Edition, mat...
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the ...
The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen Uni...
Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathemat...
The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we t...
An enlightening vision of how the laws of mathematics find organic expression in the beauty and patterns of nature, written by an acclaimed mathematic...
A nation divided, a region at risk
Malaysia is at a political and economic crossroad, and the direction it takes is of vital importance to the whole Southeast Asian region. This importa...
How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system...
Offers mathematical games, puzzles, and stories featuring geometry, logic, and probability....
Updated to reflect current research, Algebraic Number Theory and Fermatโs Last Theorem, Fourth Edition introduces fundamental ideas of algebraic num...
`This is an excellent book. Whilst specifically aimed at the "newer counsellor", this book contains much that will be of interest to experienced pract...
Judgement Day
The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchettโs brilliant new Disc...
From Equilibrium to Chaos in Phase Space and Physical Space
The framework of โsymmetryโ provides an important route between the abstract theory and experimental observations. The book applies symmetry metho...
Contributions and Applications from Modern Behavioral Science
Helping clients cope with problems of self is an important goal of modern psychotherapy. However, without ways of understanding or measuring the self ...
The Beauty and Power of Fractals
Accompanying DVD contains Arthur C. Clarke's Colours of infinity (53 min., c1995) and Infinit : (ca. 24 min.)....
A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis
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Otitis media with effusion (OME) is one of the most common diseases of childhood, yet its long-term effects are only just beginning to be appreciated....
The Science of Discworld II: A Novel
Roundworld, aka Earth, is under siege. Are three wizards and an orangutan Librarian enough to thwart the Elvish threat? When the wizards of Unseen Uni...
The Science of Discworld III: A Novel
When Charles Darwin writes the wrong book and reverses the progress of science, Unseen Universityโs wizards must once again save Roundworld (Earth, ...
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Fun and Games with Mathematics
Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, e...