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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q 172.5 C45 S74x 2002 | Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos | Stewart, Ian | Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, c2002. |
| Q 172.5 S96 S87x 2003 | SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order | Strogatz, Steven | New York : Theia, c2003. |
| QA 75 S954 2001 | The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer | Swade, Doron | New York : Viking, 2001 |
| QA 93 S97 2003 | Kepler's Conjecture: How some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world | Szpiro, George G. | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2003. |
| QA 9 W335 2003 | Everything and more : a compact history of [infinity] | Wallace, David Foster | New York : W.W. Norton, c2003 |
| QA248 .W29 2005 | The pea and the sun : a mathematical paradox | Wapner, Leonard M., 1948- | Wellesley, Mass. : A K Peters, c2005 |
| QA 95 W35 2004 | Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems | Watkins, John J. | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004 |
| QA 166 W37x 2003 | Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age | Watts, Duncan J. | New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. |
| QA 93 W37x 2003 | The math explorer : a journey through the beauty of mathematics | Weaver, Jefferson Hane | Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003 |
| QA 276.12 W374x 1997 | Conquering Statistics: Numbers Without the Crunch | Weaver, Jefferson Hane | New York : Plenum Press, c1997. |
