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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QA9 .B282 2005 | The infinite book : a short guide to the boundless, timeless and endless | Barrow, John D., 1952 | New York : Pantheon Books, c2005 |
| QA 141 B36x 2000 | The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe | Barrow, John D. | New York : Pantheon Books c2000. |
| QA 9.54 B46x 1999 | The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies | Benson, Donald C. | New York : Oxford University Press, c1999. |
| QA 10.7 M48x 2002 | Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution | Meyerson, Michael | New York : Norton, c2002. |
| QA 95 S4693x 2002 | Dr. Ecco's Cyberpuzzles: 36 puzzles for Hackers and Other Mathematical Detectives | Shasha, Dennis E. | New York : Norton, c2002. |
| QA 95 G245x 2001 | The colossal book of mathematics : classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics | Gardner, Martin | New York : Norton, c2001 |
| QA 93 S675x 2001 | How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning | Stein, Sherman | New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| QA 93 P33 | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences | Paulos, John Allen | New York : Hill and Wang, c1988. |
