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 Call Number

 Title

 Author

 Imprint

D 810 C88 B413x 2002

 Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish crypto program during World War II Beckman, Bengt Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2002.
GV 1493 S626 1982 The lady or the tiger? : and other logic puzzles, including a mathematical novel that features Gödel's great discovery Smullyan, Raymond M. New York : Knopf, 1982.
HA 29 H88 1993  How to Lie with Statistics Huff, Darrell New York : W. W. Norton, c1993.

HV 8073.5 D485 2007

 The numbers behind NUMB3RS: solving crime with mathematics Devlin, Keith J. New York : Plume, 2007
JF 1001 S227x 2001  Chaotic Elections!: A Mathematician Looks at Voting Saari, Donald G.  [Providence, R.I.] : American Mathematical Society, c2001.

ML 3805 B35 2007

 Music : a mathematical offering Dave Benson Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
N 72 M3 P48x 2001  Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidescope of Math and Art Peterson, Ivars New York : Wiley, c2001.
PN 6071 M3 I47x 1999  Imaginary Numbers:  An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings Edited by William Frucht New York : J. Wiley, c1999.
PQ 2667 U3555 T4813x 2001 The Parrot's Theorem: A Novel Guedj, Denis New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2001.
PR 9619.3 P43 F74x 1998 The French Mathematician Petsinis, Tom New York : Walker and Co., c1998.
PS 3552 R685434 D3x 2003 The Da Vinci code : a novel Brown, Dan New York : Doubleday, 2003
PS 3552 R7917 C66x 2001 Conned Again, Watson!: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability Bruce, Colin Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus, c2001.
PS 3562 E2618 I63 2007 The Indian Clerk David Leavitt New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
PS 3613 U87 S66 2005 Sophie's Diary Musielak, Dora Bloomington, IN : AuthorHouse, c2005
PT 5881.29 C4964 W5513x 2000 The Wild Numbers Schogt, Philibert New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, c2000.
Q 125 I88x 2002 It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science Edited by Graham Farmelo London : Granta, c2002.
Q 172.5 C45 S74x 2002 Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos Stewart, Ian Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, c2002.
Q 172.5 S95 F54x 1992 Symmetry in chaos : a search for pattern in mathematics, art and nature Field, Michael and Golubitsky,  Martin  Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992
Q 172.5 S95 J319x 2002 Symmetry, Ornament, and Modularity Jablan, Slavik Vlado [River Edge] New Jersey : World Scientific, c2002.
Q 172.5 S96 S87x 2003 SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Strogatz, Steven New York : Theia, c2003.
Q 175 P523x 1997  The loom of God : mathematical tapestries at the edge of time Pickover, Clifford A. New York : Plenum Press, c1997.
QA 9 M29 To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite Maor, Eli Boston : Birkhauser, c1987
QA 9 W335 2003  Everything and more : a compact history of [infinity] Wallace, David Foster New York : W.W. Norton, c2003
QA 9.54 B46x 1999 The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies Benson, Donald C.  New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.
QA 9.8 H72 1999  Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Hofstadter, Douglas R. New York : Basic Books, c1999.
QA 10.7 M48x 2002 Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution Meyerson, Michael New York : Norton, c2002.
QA 13 M319 2007 Math doesn't suck : how to ssurvive middle school math without losing your mind or breaking and nail McKeller, Danica New York: Hudson Street Press, 2007.
QA 20.3 O47 2004  Count down : six kids vie for glory at the world's toughest math competition Olson, Steve Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004
QA 26 O3513 2004  The mathematical century : the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years Piergiorgio Odifreddi ; translated by Arturo Sangalli ; with a foreword by Freeman Dyson. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004
QA 26 Y36x 2001 The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers Yandell, Benjamin H. Natick, Mass. : A.K. Peters, 2001.
QA 28 J36 2002 Remarkable Mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann James, Ioan Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2002.
QA 28 S44 2003 Mathematicians under the Nazis Segal, Sanford L. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003
QA 29 E64 A3 2002   Music and Mathematics Eperson, Canon D. B.  Sussex, England : Book Guild, c2002.
QA 29 F6 A3x 2001 In Code: A Mathematical Journey Flannery, Sarah with David Flannery New York : Workman Pub., c2001
QA 29 N25 N37x 1998 A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash Nasar, Sylvia New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.

QA 31 N479 2007

 The Archimedes codex : how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity’s greatest scientist Reviel Netz, William Noel Philadelphia, PA : Da Capo Press, 2007
QA 36 A36 2004 Proofs from the Book Aigner, Martin and  Ziegler, Günter M.  Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2001. 
QA 41 H23 2003 Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant Havil, Julian Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2003.
QA 75 S954 2001 The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer Swade, Doron New York : Viking, 2001
QA 93 A287x 2002 1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics Acheson, David Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.
QA 93 B34 2003 Strange curves, counting rabbits, and other mathematical explorations Ball, Keith M., Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003
QA 93 C38x 1996 Five golden rules : great theories of 20th-century mathematics and why they matter Casti, J. L. New York : Wiley & Sons, c1996.
QA 93 D485x 2002 The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Devlin, Keith J. New York : Basic Books, c2002.
QA 93 H533x 2002  Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen New York : Springer, c2002
QA 93 P33 Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences Paulos, John Allen New York : Hill and Wang, c1988.
QA 93 P385x 1995 A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Paulos, John Allen New York : Basic Books, c1995.
QA 93 P477x 2002 Mathematical treks : from surreal numbers to magic circles Peterson, Ivars Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, c2002.
QA 93 S38 2004 Mathematical journeys Schumer, Peter D. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2004
QA 93 S675x 2001 How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning Stein, Sherman New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001.
QA 93 S734x 2001 Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So Stewart, Ian Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., c2001.
QA 93 S97 2003 Kepler's Conjecture: How some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world Szpiro, George G. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2003.
QA 93 W37x 2003 The math explorer : a journey through the beauty of mathematics Weaver, Jefferson Hane Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003
QA 95 F69 2002 Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting Frederickson, Greg Norman New York : Cambridge University Press, c2002.
QA 95 G245x 2001 The colossal book of mathematics : classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics Gardner, Martin New York : Norton, c2001
QA 95 P528 2002 The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge Pickover, Clifford A. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2002.
QA 95 R12 1994  The enjoyment of math   Rademacher, Hans Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994
QA 95 S4693x 2002 Dr. Ecco's Cyberpuzzles: 36 puzzles for Hackers and Other Mathematical Detectives Shasha, Dennis E. New York : Norton, c2002.
QA 95 W35 2004  Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems Watkins, John J. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004
QA 99 G37x 2003  Are universes thicker than blackberries? : discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics / by Martin Gardner. Gardner, Martin New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
QA 99 K37 2005  Reality conditions: short mathematical fiction. Kasman, Alex Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America,  c2005.
QA 99 K73 2002  Mathematical apocrypha : stories and anecdotes of mathematicians and the mathematical Krantz, Steven G. Mathematical Association of America, c2002
QA 141 B36x 2000 The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe Barrow, John D.  New York : Pantheon Books c2000.
QA 141 G39x 2000 Number: from Ahmes to Cantor Gazalé, Midhat Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.
QA 141 S45x 2000 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Seife, Charles New York : Viking, c2000
QA 141.15 B69x 2001 The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational Boyle, David New York : Texere, c2001. 
QA 141.2 S64 1995  Number stories of long ago Smith, David Eugene Washington, D.C. : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
QA 165 P53 2002 The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: an Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions Pickover, Clifford A. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
QA 166 W37x 2003 Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age Watts, Duncan J. New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
QA 212 P47 2003 Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability Pesic, Peter Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.
QA 243 H67x 2003  Mathematical diamonds Honsberger, Ross Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003
QA 246 D47 2003 Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Derbyshire, John Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2003.
QA 246 D8 2003 The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics Du Sautoy, Marcus New York : HarperCollins, c2003.
QA 246 S23 2003  The Riemann hypothesis : the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics Sabbagh, Karl New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, c2002
QA 247.5 M33x 1994 e: The Story of a Number Maor, Eli Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1994
QA 255 M39x 2003 Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) Mazur, Barry New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, c2003.
QA 255 N34x 1998 An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square root of minus one Nahin, Paul J. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1998.
QA 273.15 G54x 2002 Calculated Risks: How to Know when Numbers Deceive You Gigerenzer, Gerd New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.
QA 273.15 H35x 2003  Taking chances : winning with probability Haigh, John, Dr. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
QA 273.15 H65 2002 What are the Chances? : Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip and Other Adventures in Probability Holland, Bart K. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
QA 276 N455x 2003  What the numbers say : a field guide to mastering our numerical world Niederman, Derrick New York : Broadway Books, 2003
QA 276.12 G67x 1993 The Cartoon Guide to Statistics Gonick, Larry & Smith, Woollcott New York : Haper Perennial, c1993.
QA 276.12  W374x 1997 Conquering Statistics:  Numbers Without the Crunch Weaver, Jefferson Hane New York : Plenum Press, c1997.
QA 276.3  W35x 2000 Visual Revelations Wainer Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.
QA 295 K36x 2003 The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics Kaplan, Robert and Kaplan, Ellen Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
QA 306 N34 2004  When least is best : how mathematicians discovered many clever ways to make things as small (or as large) as possible Nahin, Paul J Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004
QA 401 A27 2003  Mathematics in nature : modeling patterns in the natural world Adam, John A Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003
QA 401 S474 2001 Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win Skiena, Steven Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America ; Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2001.
QA 443.5 M56x 2001 Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace Mlodinow, Leonard New York : Free Press, c2001.
QA 445 K36x 2002 Beyond Measure: A Guided Tour through Nature, Myth, and Number