mathematics

Trouble with her algebra homework leads Julie through a mysterious portal into the Land of Mathematics, where a zebra-like Imaginary Number and creatures representing Periodic Elements help her learn about math and chemistry in order to get home.

Rumi Vasi, a gifted fourteen-year-old, feels trapped by her father's desire to make her the youngest student to attend Oxford University, her mother's longing to return to their native India, and her own dreams of being a normal teenage girl.

A comprehensive evolution of the history of mathematics that discusses how ancient civilizations understood numbers and used them.

Provides overviews of various math concepts, and features detailed plans for learning basic math, covering fractions, decimals, percents, algebra, geometry, graphs, and other topics. Includes problems and answers, a comprehensive test, sidebars, and glossaries.

Contains over one thousand questions and answers about math, covering the history of mathematics, math basics, math in science and engineering, and math in the humanities, daily life, and as recreation. Includes equations, photographs, and illustrations.

Chronicles nineteenth-century developments in mathematics through profiles of major figures, including Marie-Sophie Germain, Niels Henrik Abel, Augusta Ada Lovelace, Georg Cantor, and six others, describing their lives, discoveries, and contributions.

Leading research mathematician Ian Stewart reflects on the things he wishes he had known when he was a student, addressing a wide range of topics related to his field of study, including what mathematics is, why it's worth doing, the link between logic and proof, the role of beauty of mathematics, and many others.