Full name: The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities

Author: William Dunham Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Mathematics, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780471176619 0471176613

"Dunham writes for nonspecialists, and they will enjoy his piquantanecdotes and amusing asides -- Booklist "Artfully, Dunham conducts a tour of the mathematical universe. . .he believes these ideas to be accessible to the audience he wantsto reach, and he writes so that they are." -- Nature "If you want to encourage anyone's interest in math, get them TheMathematical Universe." * New Scientist Similar books: An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead How to Cut a Cake by Ian Stewart Four Colors Suffice by Robin Wilson The Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart Murderous Maths by Kjartan Poskitt Keys to Infinity by Clifford A. Pickover Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales by Theoni Pappas The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson by John Allen Paulos Mathematics by Timothy Gowers The Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos The Divine Proportion by H. E. Huntley Mathematics by Keith Devlin Euler by William Dunham Journey through Genius by William Dunham The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert