Full name: Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics

Author: Paul Hoffman Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780449217504 9780393025224 0449217507 0393025225

Syndicated columnist Paul Hoffman provides an acclaimed account of the world of modern mathematicians in the bestselling tradition of accessible scientists Stephen Jay Gould and Tracey Kidder. An extremely clever account.--The New Yorker. Similar books: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz by Edward B. Burger Geekspeak by Graham Tattersall Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos The Math Gene by Keith Devlin Mathematics by Timothy Gowers The Joy of x by Steven Strogatz by John Allen Paulos How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow Poincare's Prize by George G. Szpiro Love and Math by Edward Frenkel QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson