Fadiman C. The Mathematical Magpie

American Mathematical Society, 2010. - 293 pages. It is an unusual book which casts new and paradoxical light on the nature of mathematics. The book will be interesting - perhaps for different reasons - to school teachers of mathematics and maths majors at universities, to graduate students in mathematics and computer science, to research mathematicians and computer scientists, to philosophers and historians of mathematics, to psychologists and...

The Mathematical Association of America, 2002. - 368 pages. For many years, famed mathematics historian and master teacher Howard Eves collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Circles books. Thousands of teachers of mathematics have read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment and used them in the classroom - to add entertainment, to introduce a human element,...

Published by The Mathematical Association of America An MAA Spectrum book) This book was updated and revised from the 1981 edition published by Vantage Books, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 92-060996 ISBN 0-88385-506-2 More Puzzles, Games, Paradoxes, and Other Mathematical Entertainments from Scientific American with a Preface by Donald Knuth, A Postscript from the Author, and a new Bibliography by Mr. Gardner, Thoughts from R...

Published in the United States of America by The Mathematical Association of America Copyright 1965, 1967, 1968,1976, 1977 and 1990 by Martin Gardner. An MAA Spectrum book Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 89-064- 116 ISBN 0-88385 More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-of-Mind from Scientific American with a Foreword by Persi Diaconis and Ronald Graham, Afterthoughts from the Author, a new Postscript, and...

The Mathematical Association of America, 2005. - 304 pages. This is a partial record of the Bay Area Math Adventures (BAMA), a lecture series for high school students (and incidentally their teachers, parents, and other interested adults) hosted by San Jose State and Santa Clara Universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. These lectures are aimed primarily at talented high school students and as a result, the mathematics in some cases is far fro...

Fawcett, 1989. - 278 pages. Now anyone can understand what the mathematical geniuses are thinking. - How topologists figured out the way to turn a smokestack into a bowling ball — and why. - How game theorists discovered that to elect the candidate of your choice you must sometimes vote for his opponent. - How computer theorists intend to create a robot that will think for itself — and do all the housework. - How cryptographers have been labor...

The Mathematical Association of America, 1997. - 160 pages. Proofs without words are generally pictures or diagrams that help the reader see why a particular mathematical statement may be true, and how one could begin to go about proving it. While in some proofs without words an equation or two may appear to help guide that process, the emphasis is clearly on providing visual clues to stimulate mathematical thought. The proofs in this collection...

Princeton University Press, 2007. - 172 pages. The Mathematician's Brain poses a provocative question about the world's most brilliant yet eccentric mathematical minds: were they brilliant because of their eccentricities or in spite of them? In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, David Ruelle, the well-known mathematical physicist who helped create chaos theory, gives us a rare insider's account of the celebrated mathematicians he has...

Wiley, 1997. - 141 pages. A lighthearted tour through 49 of the most interesting and useful mathematical formulas ever derived Now in paperback, this whimsical book reacquaints the reader with the pleasure of playing with numbers. Both entertaining and practical, it reaches a level of sophistication consistently high enough to make intelligent people think, but never aims so high that it is difficult to follow. Accompanying the formulas are ov...

Walker & Company, 2001, 64 pages A compact volume of mathematical and physical formulae presented in a concise manner for general use. Collected in this book are commonly used formulae for studies such as quadratics, calculus and trigonometry; in addition are simplified explanations of Newton's Laws of Gravity and Snell's Laws of Refraction. A glossary, a table of mathematical and physical constants, and a listing of Imperial and Metr...