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The Remarkable Lives of Numbers: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200

By Derrick Niederman

Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

By Jackson, Tom

Newton's Notebook: The Life, Times and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

By Levy, Joel

The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

By Stephen M. Stigler

Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe

By Strogatz, Steven

Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (Dover Books on Mathematics)

By Klein, Jacob, Brann, Eva T.H.

History of Nonlinear Oscillations Theory in France (1880-1940): 49 (Archimedes, 49)

By Ginoux, Jean-Marc

Number: From Ahmes to Cantor

By Gazalé, Midhat

Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology)

By Steele, John M.

Jan de Witt’s Elementa Curvarum Linearum: Liber Secundus (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

By Grootendorst, Albert W., Aarts, Jan, Bakker, Miente, Erné, Reinie

A History of the Work Concept: From Physics to Economics: 24 (History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 24)

By Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

The Dialectic Relation Between Physics and Mathematics in the XIXth Century: 16 (History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 16)

By Barbin, Evelyne, Pisano, Raffaele

Some Points of Analysis and Their History (University Lecture Series)

By Garding, Lars

One Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton: 51 (Archimedes, 51)

By Chalmers, Alan F.

Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100: 324 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 324)

By Floyd, Juliet, Bokulich, Alisa

Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution: 254 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 254)

By Laird, Walter Roy, Roux, Sophie

Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: 45 (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 45)

By Cormack, Lesley B., Walton, Steven a., Schuster, John A.

The Genius of Archimedes -- 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, Science and Engineering: Proceedings of an International Conference held at ... of Mechanism and Machine Science, 11)

By Paipetis, S. A., Ceccarelli, Marco

The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure

By Acheson, David

Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationships Between Maths and the Physical World

By Clegg, Brian

It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics

By Launay, Mickael, Wilson, Stephen S.

The Art Of The Infinite: Our lost language of numbers

By Kaplan, Ellen, Robert

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

By Wilczek, Frank

The Secret Code

By Bensons MapGuides

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

By Jan Gullberg, Gullberg, Jan, Hilton, Peter

The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe

By Brooks, Michael

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

By Doxiadis, Apostolos, Papadimitriou, Christos H.

Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

By Singh, Simon

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Inference

By Polya, G.

Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

By Salsburg, David