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 D485x 2002 | The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles | Devlin, Keith J. | New York : Basic Books, c2002. |
| QA 246 D47 2003 | Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics | Derbyshire, John | Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2003. |
| QA 93 C38x 1996 | Five golden rules : great theories of 20th-century mathematics and why they matter | Casti, J. L. | New York : Wiley & Sons, c1996. |
| QA 39.3 B87 2005 | The heart of mathematics : an invitation to effective thinking | Burger, Edward B., 1963- | Emeryville, CA : Key College Pub., c2005 |
| PS 3552 R7917 C66x 2001 | Conned Again, Watson!: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability | Bruce, Colin | Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus, c2001. |
| PS 3552 R685434 D3x 2003 | The Da Vinci code : a novel | Brown, Dan | New York : Doubleday, 2003 |
| QA 141.15 B69x 2001 | The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational | Boyle, David | New York : Texere, c2001. |
| QA 9.54 B46x 1999 | The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies | Benson, Donald C. | New York : Oxford University Press, c1999. |
| ML 3805 B35 2007 | Music : a mathematical offering | Dave Benson | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| D 810 C88 B413x 2002 | Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish crypto program during World War II | Beckman, Bengt | Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2002. |
