Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them. Written in a friendly style for a general audience, Fearless Symmetry is the first popular math book to discuss these elegant and mysterious patterns and the ingenious techniques mathematicians use to uncover them.</p> Hidden s...(展开全部)

Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The a...(展开全部)

伊恩•斯图尔特，英国皇家学会院士，毕业于剑桥大学（硕士）和华威大学（博士），拥有5个荣誉学位，。他先后出版了100多部著作，包括与特里•普拉切特（Terry Pratchett）、杰克•科恩（Jack Cohen）合著的《蝶形世界的科学》系列畅销书。他获得过英国皇家学会法拉第奖章、英国数学及应用研究所金奖、塞曼奖、路易斯•托马斯奖等，曾多次出现在电台和电视节目中，研究领域主要包括图形的形成、混沌、网络动态、生物数学等。

The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a novel and intriguing look at sport, by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Discover the best tactics for taking a penalty, the pros and cons of being a consistent golfer, the surprising link between boxing and figure skating, the unusual location of England's earliest 'football' game (in a parish church), and the formula for a...(展开全部)

蔡天新编著的《数之书》是一本有关整数（有时也涉及有理数）的书，是每一位受过中等或高等教育的人都能看懂或部分看懂的书。本书共有7章，内容包括：整除的算法、同余的概念、同余式理论、平方剩余、n次剩余、整数幂模同余和加乘数论等。前5章及其补充读物仍构成《初等数论》的教学内容，最后两章不在此课程的讲授范围之内，但第6章与同余式紧密相关，且能够伸手触摸到。至于本书的最大特色，可能要数每节后面的补充读物。这种形式是一种尝试，希望借此拓广读者的知识面和想象力，递增他们对数论的兴趣和热爱。本书可供数学及相关专业的教师、学生阅读参考，也可供数学爱好者自学使用。

Two most important essays by the famous German mathematician: one provides an arithmetic, rigorous foundation for the irrational numbers, thereby a rigorous meaning of continuity in analysis. The other is an attempt to give logical basis for transfinite numbers and properties of the natural numbers.

Number theory proves to be a virtually inexhaustible source of intriguing puzzle problems -- interesting to beginning and advanced readers. Divisors, perfect numbers, the congruences of Gauss, scales of notation, the Pell equation, many other aspects produce ingenious puzzles. Solutions to all problems.

This book tells the fascinating story of the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a perfectly symmetrical soccer-ball shaped molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms. This new molecule, one of a large family of carbon cage molecules called "fullerenes"--represents a new form of carbon, complementing such well-known materials as diamond and graphite. Its discovery has revolutionized o...(展开全部)

Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “W...(展开全部)

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long...(展开全部)