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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

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

By Jan Gullberg, Gullberg, Jan, Hilton, Peter

The Secret Code

By Bensons MapGuides

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

By Wilczek, Frank

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

By Dyson, George

The Quest for Unity: The Adventure of Physics

By Klein, Etienne, Lachieze-Rey, Marc, Reisinger, Axel

Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (Princeton Paperbacks)

By Porter, Theodore M.

Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems

By Stewart, Ian

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics

By Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Wright, G. H. von, Anscombe, G. E. M.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

By Lienhard, John H.

Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

By Mlodinow, Leonard

Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical

By Ball, Johnny

"e": The Story of a Number (Princeton Science Library)

By Maor, Eli

Math Hacks

By Cochrane, Richard

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

By Derrick Niederman

It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics

By Launay, Mickael, Wilson, Stephen S.

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

By Clegg, Brian

The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure

By Acheson, David

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

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.

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

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

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

By Chalmers, Alan F.

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

By Garding, Lars

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

By Barbin, Evelyne, Pisano, Raffaele

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

By Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

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

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

By Steele, John M.

Number: From Ahmes to Cantor

By Gazalé, Midhat

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

By Ginoux, Jean-Marc