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 26 Y36x 2001 | The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers | Yandell, Benjamin H. | Natick, Mass. : A.K. Peters, 2001. |
| PS 3562 E2618 I63 2007 | The Indian Clerk | David Leavitt | New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007. |
| QA9 .B282 2005 | The infinite book : a short guide to the boundless, timeless and endless | Barrow, John D., 1952 | New York : Pantheon Books, c2005 |
| GV 1493 S626 1982 | The lady or the tiger? : and other logic puzzles, including a mathematical novel that features Gödel's great discovery | Smullyan, Raymond M. | New York : Knopf, 1982. |
| Q 175 P523x 1997 | The loom of God : mathematical tapestries at the edge of time | Pickover, Clifford A. | New York : Plenum Press, c1997. |
| QA 93 W37x 2003 | The math explorer : a journey through the beauty of mathematics | Weaver, Jefferson Hane | Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003 |
| QA 26 O3513 2004 | The mathematical century : the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years | Piergiorgio Odifreddi ; translated by Arturo Sangalli ; with a foreword by Freeman Dyson. | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004 |
| QA 95 P528 2002 | The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge | Pickover, Clifford A. | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2002. |
| QA 93 D485x 2002 | The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles | Devlin, Keith J. | New York : Basic Books, c2002. |
| QA 9.54 B46x 1999 | The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies | Benson, Donald C. | New York : Oxford University Press, c1999. |
