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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PT 5881.29 C4964 W5513x 2000 | The Wild Numbers | Schogt, Philibert | New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, c2000. |
| QA 93 S38 2004 | Mathematical journeys | Schumer, Peter D. | Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 |
| QA 28 S44 2003 | Mathematicians under the Nazis | Segal, Sanford L. | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003 |
| QA 141 S45x 2000 | Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea | Seife, Charles | New York : Viking, c2000 |
| QA 95 S4693x 2002 | Dr. Ecco's Cyberpuzzles: 36 puzzles for Hackers and Other Mathematical Detectives | Shasha, Dennis E. | New York : Norton, c2002. |
| QA244 .S55x 1997 | Fermat | Singh, Simon | New York : Walker, 1997 |
| QA 141.2 S64 1995 | Number stories of long ago | Smith, David Eugene | Washington, D.C. : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |
| QA 93 S675x 2001 | How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning | Stein, Sherman | New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001. |
| QA 8.4 S72 2008 | How Math Explains the World | James D. Stein | New York : HarperCollins : Smithsonian Books, c2008 |
| QA 93 S734x 2001 | Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So | Stewart, Ian | Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., c2001. |
