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 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 |
| QA 99 G37x 2003 | Are universes thicker than blackberries? : discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics / by Martin Gardner. | Gardner, Martin | New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. |
| QA 141 G39x 2000 | Number: from Ahmes to Cantor | Gazal | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000. |
| QA 273.15 G54x 2002 | Calculated Risks: How to Know when Numbers Deceive You | Gigerenzer, Gerd | New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002. |
| QA 276.12 G67x 1993 | The Cartoon Guide to Statistics | Gonick, Larry & Smith, Woollcott | New York : Haper Perennial, c1993. |
| PQ 2667 U3555 T4813x 2001 | The Parrot's Theorem: A Novel | Guedj, Denis | New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2001. |
| QA 273.15 H35x 2003 | Taking chances : winning with probability | Haigh, John, Dr. | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| QA 41 H23 2003 | Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant | Havil, Julian | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2003. |
| QA 93 H533x 2002 | Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows | Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen | New York : Springer, c2002 |
| QA 9.8 H72 1999 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Hofstadter, Douglas R. | New York : Basic Books, c1999. |
