Ten-year-olds Flor Bernoulli, a Brooklyn fashion maven, and Lucy Moon, a Georgia farm girl, use their very different super powers to combat tiny Square Man, whose mission is to rid the universe of anything round or curved.
Focuses on the early accounts of algebra, looking at Egyptian writings which influenced geometric algebra and evolved into quadratic algebra and examining how the Pythagorean theorem was derived from a Babylonian theorem.
a true tale of mathematics, mysticism, and a quest to understand the universe
Aczel, Amir D
2005
Explores the mysterious work of seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes, and examines his mathematical theories and his understanding of the order and mystery of the cosmos.
discourses on G?del, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics
Gardner, Martin
2003
A collection of essays in which Martin Gardner reflects on a variety of topics related to science, mathematics, literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism.
how mathematicians discovered many clever ways to make things as small (or as large) as possible
Nahin, Paul J
2004
Looks at mathematical research and discoveries in the subject of extrema--where values are as small or as large as possible--over the course of the last two centuries. Written for readers with an understanding of first year undergraduate calculus and physics.
