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Top 50 Best-selling Recreational Mathematics Books

Popular mathematics books of enduring appeal...

Cambridge has an exciting, high profile, and well renowned list of general and recreational Mathematics books. From classics such as A Mathematician's Apology, through to more recently published books such as A Mathematical Tapestry, described by Martin Gardner (whose books also feature amongst our bestsellers) as: ‘[an]…exciting and handsome volume…a rich 'tapestry, as the authors call it, from first page to last,' and also including The Pleasures and Counting and How to Think Like a Mathematician, amongst many others.

 

Recreational mathematics books from Cambridge have long lasting and enduring appeal. This collection features the top fifty best-selling books in this area over the past twelve months

 

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aha! A two volume collection

aha! A two volume collection

aha! Gotcha aha! Insight
  • Martin Gardner
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780883855515)
  • Publication date: December 2006
  • Subject: Recreational mathematics

Martin Gardner's aha! Gotcha and aha! Insight combined: 144 wonderful puzzles from the reigning king of recreational mathematics.

Series: Spectrum
  • In stock
  • £34.99
A Historian Looks Back

A Historian Looks Back

The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings
  • Judith V. Grabiner
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780883855720)
  • Publication date: October 2010
  • Subject: History of mathematics

An inspiring collection of a historian's work on the history of mathematics.

Series: Spectrum
  • In stock
  • £44.00
Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

Life and Logic
  • Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521714013)
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  • Publication date: May 2008
  • Subject: Recreational mathematics

A frank, vivid picture of a personally and professionally passionate man, interlaced with an account of his major scientific achievements.

  • In stock
  • £18.99
All the Mathematics You Missed

All the Mathematics You Missed

But Need to Know for Graduate School
  • Thomas A. Garrity, Lori Pedersen
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521797078)
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  • Publication date: January 2002
  • Subject: Recreational mathematics

An essential 2002 resource for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in quantitative subjects who need to quickly learn some serious mathematics.

  • In stock
  • £27.99
A Mathematical Tapestry

A Mathematical Tapestry

Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics
  • Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, Sylvie Donmoyer
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521128216)
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  • Publication date: July 2010
  • Subject: Recreational mathematics

Build paper polygons and discover how systematic paper folding reveals exciting patterns and relationships between seemingly unconnected branches of mathematics.

  • In stock
  • £20.99
A Mathematician's Apology

A Mathematician's Apology

  • G. H. Hardy
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521052078)
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  • Publication date: February 1975
  • Subject: Recreational mathematics

An Episodic History of Mathematics

An Episodic History of Mathematics

Mathematical Culture through Problem Solving
  • Steven G. Krantz
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780883857663)
  • Publication date: April 2010
  • Subject: History of mathematics

A series of snapshots of the history of mathematics from ancient times to the twentieth century.

Series: Mathematical Association of America Textbooks
  • In stock
  • £48.00
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Titan of Science
  • G. Waldo Dunnington, Jeremy Gray, Fritz-Egbert Dohse
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780883855478)
  • Publication date: October 2004
  • Subject: History of mathematics

Classic biography of Gauss, updated with new introduction, bibliography and new material.

Series: Spectrum
  • In stock
  • £35.00
Creative Mathematics

Creative Mathematics

A Gateway to Research
  • Alan F. Beardon
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521130592)
  • Publication date: March 2010
  • Subject: Recreational mathematics

How to think like a mathematician, and good advice on how to become one.

Series: AIMS Library of Mathematical Sciences
  • In stock
  • £17.99
Dicing with Death

Dicing with Death

Chance, Risk and Health
  • Stephen Senn
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521540230)
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  • Publication date: November 2003
  • Subject: Recreational mathematics

Explanation of the whys and hows of statistical reasoning in medicine and health.

  • In stock
  • £23.99
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