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A biography of ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who believed that all matter was made up of indivisible and indestructible particles called atoms moving around in a void.

Teachers describe their experiences taking an interdisciplinary approach to math, integrating reading and writing into math classes and covering mathematics history and concepts in language arts and social studies classes.

Presents a twenty-step program to math literacy in preparation for any basic skills exam such as the Civil Service and National Standards tests and includes practical exercises and examples.

Follows the six members of the 2001 Mathematical Olympiad team, and portrays them as something other than the stereotypical math student, with many varying interests, and discusses reasons for the lack of girls and the high percentage of Asian students in mathematics.

Profiles feuds between such figures as Gerolamo Cardano and Tartaglia, Pierre de Fermat and Ren? Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and David Hilbert and L. E. J. Brouwer, discussing their respective arguments, their motivation, and the mathematical legacies of the discoveries over which they fought.

A collection of challenging problems and provocative quotes with intricate drawings that combine science, history, and literature.

Blends science, history, and biography in an exploration of how mathematical language has been used to to make sense of the physical world, focusing on Einstein's hero James Clerk Maxwell and his four equations on electricty and magnetism, as well as the work of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.

Traces the history of mathematics, focusing on the ten most important breakthroughs in mathematical history and profiling the men behind those breakthroughs.

Discusses the relevance of mathematics to most aspects of life, and directly relates ideas from math to problem solving in unusual places, such as whether there is life on Mars, and the Unabomber case.