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 93 P477x 2002 | Mathematical treks : from surreal numbers to magic circles | Peterson, Ivars | Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, c2002. |
| QA 212 P47 2003 | Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability | Pesic, Peter | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003. |
| QA 93 P33 | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences | Paulos, John Allen | New York : Hill and Wang, c1988. |
| QA 93 P385x 1995 | A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper | Paulos, John Allen | New York : Basic Books, c1995. |
| 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 276 N455x 2003 | What the numbers say : a field guide to mastering our numerical world | Niederman, Derrick | New York : Broadway Books, 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 29 N25 N37x 1998 | A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash | Nasar, Sylvia | New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001. |
| QA 255 N34x 1998 | An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square root of minus one | Nahin, Paul J. | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1998. |
| PS 3613 U87 S66 2005 | Sophie's Diary | Musielak, Dora | Bloomington, IN : AuthorHouse, c2005 |
