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 H65 2002 | What are the Chances? : Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip and Other Adventures in Probability | Holland, Bart K. | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002. |
| QA 243 H67x 2003 | Mathematical diamonds | Honsberger, Ross | Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| Q 172.5 S95 J319x 2002 | Symmetry, Ornament, and Modularity | Jablan, Slavik Vlado | [River Edge] New Jersey : World Scientific, c2002. |
| QA 28 J36 2002 | Remarkable Mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann | James, Ioan | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2002. |
| QA 99 K37 2005 | Reality conditions: short mathematical fiction. | Kasman, Alex | Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, |
| QA241 .K74 | Surreal numbers : how two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness : a mathematical novelette | Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938- | Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1974] |
| QA 99 K73 2002 | Mathematical apocrypha : stories and anecdotes of mathematicians and the mathematical | Krantz, Steven G. | Mathematical Association of America, c2002 |
| PS 3562 E2618 I63 2007 | The Indian Clerk | David Leavitt | New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007. |
| QA 247.5 M33x 1994 | e: The Story of a Number | Maor, Eli | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1994 |
| QA 9 M29 | To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite | Maor, Eli | Boston : Birkhauser, c1987 |
