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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

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Review: this book admittedly is not laid out in an obviously systematic way but i m not sure that matters. it got me interested in some things that i thought were rather boring, and on the whole though i haven t read it all through yet it does seem to the makings of a very....

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Review: Not good: will I finish it? Won't I? Guess I'll have to if I want to assess fairly, but it'll be hard work. Arrogance seeps through every word and, at the end of the day, he's repeatedly hammering home one point that anyone with a degree of critical thinking will b....

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The Selfish Gene

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Review: This is Professor Dawkins' finest piece of work. Not only does he provide his own knowledge and ingenious thinking, but he also ties together the works of Darwin, Hamilton, Fisher, Trivers, and many other great revolutionary Evolutionary Biologists. As a Geneticist....

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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Review: This book is very badly written. The author's arrogance comes across in the preface when he claims he dismissed his editors suggestions to make his style 'better'. There are some interesting ideas here but they are not worth the effort.....

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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

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Fermat's Last Theorem

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Description: When Cambridge mathematician Andrew Wiles announced a solution for Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already laboured in solitude for seven ....

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Engineering Mathematics 6th Edition

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Review: When I was a young man, I embarked on a degree in mechanical engineering. This was about 30 years ago. In the first year alone we had to study about eight different subjects. These included fluid mechanics, drawing and design, solid body mechanics, electricity, m....

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The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

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Review: A fascinating book. On the face of it, it is about statistics, but actually it is about something far deeper - how we perceive and interpret the information that affects all our lives deeply. Ex post, everything you read seems like common sense, ex ante however it ....

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The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters

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Review: The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy is an interesting look at the history of mathematical discoveries surrounding the prime numbers. It's a tough topic though, and the author's attempts to make it more palatable to non-mathematicians sometimes backfire. Th....

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50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know

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Review: This is a great book; It goes into sufficient detail on all the topics, and introduced and explained to me to a few new topics. It gives each topic 4 pages of clear, interesting and thorough analysis. The ideas lead very clearly from one to another, but you will ....

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