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Perplexing Paradoxes: Unraveling Enigmas in the World Around Us

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Perplexing Paradoxes: Unraveling Enigmas in the World Around Us

Perplexing Paradoxes: Unraveling Enigmas in the World Around Us by George G. Szpiro
English | March 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 023121376X | 360 pages | True EPUB | 10.62 MB

Why does it always seem like the elevator is going down when you need to go up? Is it really true that 0.99999 . . . with an infinite number of 9s after the decimal point, is equal to 1? What do tea leaves and river erosion have in common, per Albert Einstein? Does seeing a bed of red flowers help prove that all ravens are black? Can we make sense of a phrase like "this statement is unprovable"?

Math in Drag

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Math in Drag

Math in Drag by Kyne Santos
English | March 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 1421448742 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 17.12 MB

Unleash your inner math diva.

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean by Matt Strassler
English | March 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 154160329X | 384 pages | True EPUB | 4.18 MB

A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey—found in "no other book" (Science)—to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: "If you want to know what's really going on in the realms of relativity and particle physics, read this book" (Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe).

Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)

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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)

Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them) by Roberto Trotta
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541674774 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 2.77 MB

A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history

Around the World in Eighty Games

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Around the World in Eighty Games

Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541601289 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 9.67 MB

“A delightful global tour of how humans think and play, led by one of our finest mathematical storytellers.” — Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings

Mr Hopkins` Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century (Repost)

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Mr Hopkins` Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century (Repost)

Mr Hopkins` Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century by A.D.D. Craik
English | PDF | 2007 | 410 Pages | ISBN : 1848001320 | 96.1 MB

A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-known album of pencil and watercolour portraits. The artist of most (perhaps all) was Thomas Charles Wageman. Created during 1829–1852, these portraits are of pupils of the famous mat- matical tutor William Hopkins.

The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics

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The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics

The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics by A. W. Moore
English | November 8th, 2023 | ISBN: 0192871412 | 372 pages | True PDF | 2.31 MB

The Human A Priori is a collection of essays by A. W. Moore, one of them previously unpublished and the rest all revised. These essays are all concerned, more or less directly, with something ineliminably anthropocentric in our systematic pursuit of a priori sense-making.

The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics

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The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics

The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics by A. W. Moore
English | November 8th, 2023 | ISBN: 0192871412 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 0.82 MB

The Human A Priori is a collection of essays by A. W. Moore, one of them previously unpublished and the rest all revised. These essays are all concerned, more or less directly, with something ineliminably anthropocentric in our systematic pursuit of a priori sense-making.

Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
English | August 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541601823 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 26.26 MB

One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answers

The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics

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The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics

The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott
English | July 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 0691206082 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 51.34 MB

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage

Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

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Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality by Rudy Rucker
English | January 31st, 2014 | ISBN: 0486492281 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 16.74 MB

This reader-friendly volume groups the patterns of mathematics into five archetypes: numbers, space, logic, infinity, and information. Rudy Rucker presents an accessible introduction to each of these important areas, reflecting intelligence gathered from the frontiers of mathematical thought. More than 100 drawings illuminate explorations of digital versus analog processes, logic as a computing tool, communication as information transmission, and other "mind tools."

Two Arguments for the Identity of Indiscernibles

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Two Arguments for the Identity of Indiscernibles

Two Arguments for the Identity of Indiscernibles by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
December 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0192866869 | English | 144 pages | EPUB | 0.4 MB

The Spirit of Mathematics: Algebra and all that

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The Spirit of Mathematics: Algebra and all that

The Spirit of Mathematics: Algebra and all that by David Acheson
English | March 9th, 2023 | ISBN: 019284508X | 192 pages | True EPUB | 5.92 MB

What makes mathematics so special?

The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: An English Translation with Commentary

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The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: An English Translation with Commentary

The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: An English Translation with Commentary by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen
English | October 20th, 2014 | ISBN: 1421414422 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 7.89 MB

The first English translation of this major work of classical Indian astronomy and mathematics.

The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900

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The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900

Stephen M. Stigler, "The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900"
English | 1990 | ISBN: 067440341X, 0674403401 | 432 pages | PDF | 118.3 MB