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
- 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.
- In stock
- £34.99
A Historian Looks Back
- 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.
- In stock
- £44.00
Alfred Tarski
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521714013)
- 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
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521797078)
- 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
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521128216)
- 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
- Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521052078)
- Publication date: February 1975
- Subject: Recreational mathematics
- Replaced by 9780521427067
- £15.00
An Episodic History of Mathematics
- 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.
- In stock
- £48.00
Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780883855478)
- Publication date: October 2004
- Subject: History of mathematics
Classic biography of Gauss, updated with new introduction, bibliography and new material.
- In stock
- £35.00
Creative Mathematics
- 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.
- In stock
- £17.99
Dicing with Death
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521540230)
- Publication date: November 2003
- Subject: Recreational mathematics
Explanation of the whys and hows of statistical reasoning in medicine and health.
- In stock
- £23.99