Spectrum Series

24 primary works • 24 total works
Targets the general mathematically-interested reader with broad coverage of biographies, history, popular works, and books of general interest.
The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English
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3.67 · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1994 · 2 editions
The Words of Mathematics explains the origins of o…

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    Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 2 editions
    This book contains 500 problems that range over a …

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    Non-Euclidean Geometry
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    4.32     · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 10 editions
    This is a reissue of Professor Coxeter's classic t…

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    Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2000 · 2 editions
    Through hard experience mathematicians have learne…

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    Mathematical Reminiscences
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    0.00     · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Long known as a mathematical storyteller, Howard E…

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    Sherlock Holmes in Babylon: And Other Tales of Mathematical History
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions
    Covering a span of almost 4000 years, from the anc…

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    Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 2 editions
    A collection of the best from Mathematics Magazine…

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    Proof and Other Dilemmas: Mathematics and Philosophy
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 1 edition
    For the majority of the twentieth century, philoso…

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    Who Gave you the Epsilon?: And Other Tales of Mathematical History
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    5.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 4 editions
    This book picks up the history of mathematics from…

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    A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings
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    0.00     · published 2010 · 4 editions
    Judith Grabiner has written extensively on the his…

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    Mathematics in Historical Context
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 3 editions
    What would Newton see if he looked out his bedroom…

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    Lobachevski Illuminated
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2011 · 2 editions
    Lobachevski Illuminated provides a historical intr…

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    Beautiful Mathematics
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    3.00     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions
    Mathematical ideas have an aesthetic appeal that c…

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    A Mathematician Comes of Age
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    3.64     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 2 editions
    This book is about the concept of mathematical mat…

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    Calculus and Its Origins
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 2 editions
    Calculus answers questions that had been explored …

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    Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 2 editions
    The French mathematician Sophie Germain was the fi…

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    In the Dark on the Sunny Side: A Memoir of an Out-of-Sight Mathematician
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    4.00     · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 3 editions
    Misfortune struck one June day in 1944, when a fiv…

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    Six Sources of Collapse
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 4 editions
    Beginning with one of the most remarkable ecologic…

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    More Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 4 editions
    Mistakes in mathematical reasoning can range from …

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    Illustrated Special Relativity Through Its Paradoxes: Standard Edition: A Fusion of Linear Algebra, Graphics, and Reality
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 3 editions
    This accessible work, with its plethora of full-co…

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    How Euler Did Even More
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 4 editions
    C. Edward Sandifer has been studying Euler for dec…

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    I, Mathematician
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    0.00     · published 2015 · 2 editions
    "At the MAA Summer MathFest in 2007, Peter Casazza…

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    Half a Century of Pythagoras Magazine
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2016 · 2 editions
    Half a Century of Pythagoras Magazine is a selecti…

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    Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating-Sign Matrix Conjecture
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    3.67     · 9 Ratings · published 1999 · 3 editions
    This introduction to recent developments in algebr…

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