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 39.3 B87 2005 | The heart of mathematics : an invitation to effective thinking | Burger, Edward B., 1963- | Emeryville, CA : Key College Pub., c2005 |
| QA 93 C38x 1996 | Five golden rules : great theories of 20th-century mathematics and why they matter | Casti, J. L. | New York : Wiley & Sons, c1996. |
| ML 3805 B35 2007 | Music : a mathematical offering | Dave Benson | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| PS 3562 E2618 I63 2007 | The Indian Clerk | David Leavitt | New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007. |
| QA 246 D47 2003 | Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics | Derbyshire, John | Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2003. |
| HV 8073.5 D485 2007 | The numbers behind NUMB3RS: solving crime with mathematics | Devlin, Keith J. | New York : Plume, 2007 |
| QA 93 D485x 2002 | The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles | Devlin, Keith J. | New York : Basic Books, c2002. |
| QA 246 D8 2003 | The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics | Du Sautoy, Marcus | New York : HarperCollins, c2003. |
| Q 125 I88x 2002 | It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science | Edited by Graham Farmelo | London : Granta, c2002. |
| PN 6071 M3 I47x 1999 | Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings | Edited by William Frucht | New York : J. Wiley, c1999. |
