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How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics
by James D. Stein
New York: Smithsonian Books, 2008
In How Math Explains the World, mathematician …

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Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos
by Ian Stewart
Oxford: Blackwell, 1989
Einstein did not believe that ‘God plays dice’. He laid the foundations for today’s thinking that the universe is governed …

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What Shape is a Snowflake? Magical Numbers in Nature
by Ian Stewart
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001
Think of a zebra’s stripes, the complexities of a spider’s web, the uniformity of ocean waves and …

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Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man
by John Allen Paulos
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
From John Allen Paulos, author of the widely praised best-seller Innumeracy and the country’s best explainer …

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The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
by David Berlinksi
New York: Harcourt, 2000
Two ideas lie gleaming on the jeweler’s velvet. The first is the calculus, the second, …

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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
New York: W. H. Freeman, 1983
Now that the field has expanded greatly with many active researchers, Mandelbrot presents the definitive overview of the …

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Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being
by John D. Barrow
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992
Whether one studies the farthest reaches of outer space or the inner space of elementary particles of …

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The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible
by Keith Devlin
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1998
The great book of nature,” said Galileo, “can be read only by those who …

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The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
by John D. Barrow
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000
From one of our foremost mathematicians and cosmologists …

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Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise
by Ivars Peterson
New York: W. H. Freeman, 1990
Do you know of a mathematical formula that can transform circles into squares? Can you turn a …