Discloses a variety of details about numbers like the year 1776 and discusses prime numbers and number patterns, and exposes revelatory properties of numbers. Also provides games and gambling with dice and playing cards along with mathematical puzzles.
Profiles sixty mathematicians, all born between 1700 and 1910, who made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, teaching, and influence.
more puzzles, games, paradoxes, and other mathematical entertainments from Scientific American with a preface by Donald Knuth, a postscript from the author, and a new bibliography by Mr. Gardner : thoughts from readers, and 105 drawings and diagrams
Presents a collection of nineteen lectures presented by a number of distinguished mathematicians at the Bay Area Math Adventures lecture series and covers topics from classical geometry to work in number theory using elliptic curves.
Presents sixteen short stories involving mathematics, including tales in which a nineteenth-century woman mathematician is murdered, a nursing home resident explains how he disproved Goldbach's conjecture in college, and Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell discovers electromagnetic waves.
