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 75 S954 2001 | The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer | Swade, Doron | New York : Viking, 2001 |
| PQ 2667 U3555 T4813x 2001 | The Parrot's Theorem: A Novel | Guedj, Denis | New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2001. |
| Q 172.5 S96 S87x 2003 | SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order | Strogatz, Steven | New York : Theia, c2003. |
| QA 141.15 B69x 2001 | The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational | Boyle, David | New York : Texere, c2001. |
| QA 93 H533x 2002 | Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows | Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen | New York : Springer, c2002 |
| QA 273.15 G54x 2002 | Calculated Risks: How to Know when Numbers Deceive You | Gigerenzer, Gerd | New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002. |
| 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. |
| HV 8073.5 D485 2007 | The numbers behind NUMB3RS: solving crime with mathematics | Devlin, Keith J. | New York : Plume, 2007 |
| Q 175 P523x 1997 | The loom of God : mathematical tapestries at the edge of time | Pickover, Clifford A. | New York : Plenum Press, c1997. |
| QA 276.12 W374x 1997 | Conquering Statistics: Numbers Without the Crunch | Weaver, Jefferson Hane | New York : Plenum Press, c1997. |
