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 273.15 H35x 2003 | Taking chances : winning with probability | Haigh, John, Dr. | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| QA 31 N479 2007 | The Archimedes codex : how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity | Reviel Netz, William Noel | Philadelphia, PA : Da Capo 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 276.12 G67x 1993 | The Cartoon Guide to Statistics | Gonick, Larry & Smith, Woollcott | New York : Haper Perennial, c1993. |
| 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 |
| PS 3552 R685434 D3x 2003 | The Da Vinci code : a novel | Brown, Dan | New York : Doubleday, 2003 |
| QA 75 S954 2001 | The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer | Swade, Doron | New York : Viking, 2001 |
| QA 95 R12 1994 | The enjoyment of math | Rademacher, Hans | Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994 |
| PR 9619.3 P43 F74x 1998 | The French Mathematician | Petsinis, Tom | New York : Walker and Co., c1998. |
| QA 39.3 B87 2005 | The heart of mathematics : an invitation to effective thinking | Burger, Edward B., 1963- | Emeryville, CA : Key College Pub., c2005 |
