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 Number |
Title | Author | Imprint |
|---|---|---|---|
| QA 93 P33 | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences | Paulos, John Allen | New York : Hill and Wang, c1988. |
| QA 93 P385x 1995 | A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper | Paulos, John Allen | New York : Basic Books, c1995. |
| QA 93 P477x 2002 | Mathematical treks : from surreal numbers to magic circles | Peterson, Ivars | Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, c2002. |
| QA 93 S38 2004 | Mathematical journeys | Schumer, Peter D. | Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 |
| QA 93 S675x 2001 | How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning | Stein, Sherman | New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001. |
| QA 93 S734x 2001 | Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So | Stewart, Ian | Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., c2001. |
| QA 93 S97 2003 | Kepler's Conjecture: How some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world | Szpiro, George G. | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2003. |
| QA 93 W37x 2003 | The math explorer : a journey through the beauty of mathematics | Weaver, Jefferson Hane | Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003 |
| QA 95 F69 2002 | Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting | Frederickson, Greg Norman | New York : Cambridge University Press, c2002. |
| QA 95 G245x 2001 | The colossal book of mathematics : classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics | Gardner, Martin | New York : Norton, c2001 |
