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 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 99 G37x 2003 | Are universes thicker than blackberries? : discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics / by Martin Gardner. | Gardner, Martin | New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. |
| 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 95 F69 2002 | Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting | Frederickson, Greg Norman | New York : Cambridge University Press, c2002. |
| QA 29 F6 A3x 2001 | In Code: A Mathematical Journey | Flannery, Sarah with David Flannery | New York : Workman Pub., c2001 |
| Q 172.5 S95 F54x 1992 | Symmetry in chaos : a search for pattern in mathematics, art and nature | Field, Michael and Golubitsky, Martin | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992 |
| Q 125 I88x 2002 | It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science | Edited by Graham Farmelo | London : Granta, c2002. |
| QA 29 E64 A3 2002 | Music and Mathematics | Eperson, Canon D. B. | Sussex, England : Book Guild, 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. |
| QA 246 S23 2003 | The Riemann hypothesis : the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics | Sabbagh, Karl | New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, c2002 |
