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Popular Works of Mathematics Math Lite Collection

All works listed in the link below are in the collection of the Mathematics Library and may be borrowed for regular loan.  To place a request through the Library Catalog, search for the item by title, author or call number and click the Requests button at the top of the screen.

This listing should be considered as a discovery tool.  It was not meant to be a complete listing of of all popular or lay accessible books in the library.  As a discovery tool think of looking for other books in the same call number, or other books by the same authors, or other books with the same key words in the title or subject.  Suggestions for more titles to include will be happily accepted via e-mail to swr1@cornell.edu.

Call Numbersort icon Title Author Imprint
Q 172.5 S96 S87x 2003 SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Strogatz, Steven New York : Theia, c2003.
Q 175 P523x 1997 The loom of God : mathematical tapestries at the edge of time Pickover, Clifford A. New York : Plenum Press, c1997.
QA 10.7 M48x 2002 Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution Meyerson, Michael New York : Norton, c2002.
QA 13 M319 2007 Math doesn't suck : how to survive middle school math without losing your mind or breaking a nail McKellar, Danica New York: Hudson Street Press, 2007.
QA 141 B36x 2000 The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe Barrow, John D. New York : Pantheon Books c2000.
QA 141 G39x 2000 Number: from Ahmes to Cantor Gazal Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.
QA 141 S45x 2000 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Seife, Charles New York : Viking, c2000
QA 141.15 B69x 2001 The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational Boyle, David New York : Texere, c2001.
QA 141.2 S64 1995 Number stories of long ago Smith, David Eugene Washington, D.C. : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
QA 165 P53 2002 The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: an Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions Pickover, Clifford A. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.

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