Following the death of her brilliant mathematician father, Catherine struggles to come to terms with his legacy. Inheriting some of both his brilliance and his instability, she is torn between her sister, Claire, who wants to take her back to New York, and Hal, a former student of her father's, who tests both her knowledge and her emotions. In Proof, David Auburn has fashioned ...(展开全部)

A manifesto for a new way of working and living from a Harvard Business School professor, urging us to ditch the one-path career plan and embrace all the opportunities available to us. 'A guide to leading a balanced life.' ADAM GRANT Gone are the days of a one-path career- embrace all that makes you YOU and build a multifaceted life that celebrates all your skills and interests...(展开全部)

Math - the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions - usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes - conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. Did you know that a losing sports team can become a winning one by adding worse players than its oppone...(展开全部)

An introduction to writing proofs, presented through compelling mathematical statements with interesting elementary proofs. This book offers an introduction to the art and craft of proof-writing. The author, a leading research mathematician, presents a series of engaging and compelling mathematical statements with interesting elementary proofs. These proofs capture a wide range...(展开全部)

'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' - "The Guardian". In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics wa...(展开全部)

金伯莉·帕尔默（Kimberly Palmer） 编辑/自由撰稿人/咨询顾问/规划师/公共演讲者/CEO 美国国民网红级斜杠创业家， NBC、CNBC、CNN等美国各大电视和广播节目的常客，精通理财决策和财务规划类话题，演讲足迹遍布全美。她是《美国新闻与世界报道》（U.S. News & World Report）资深编辑、阿尔法消费者（Alpha Consumer）博客博主、《创收一代：年轻专业人士的消费、投资和回馈指南》的作者，也是Etsy“帕尔默规划”小店的老板。她从把副业做成了自己的事业，已经拥有了自己的小型团队。她还曾以亨利卢斯学者（Henry Luce Scholar）的身份为《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街日报》和东京的《朝日新闻》撰稿。她拥有芝加哥大学公共政策专业的硕士学位，和阿默斯特学院历史专业的学士学位。金伯莉和她的丈夫、两个孩子住在华盛...(展开全部)

This novel is considered the greatest work of fiction by the Brazilian writer the New York Times Book Review called “the premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century.” An intense and lyrical work, it chronicles its female protagonist’s journey of self-discovery and self-affirmation. This novel is considered the greatest work of fiction by the Brazilian writer the N...(展开全部)

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed . . .” Julian Barnes’s new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as “an unparalleled magus of the heart.” Thi...(展开全部)

'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book ...(展开全部)

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, a...(展开全部)