 Relativity Simply Explained
by Martin Gardner
One of the subject's clearest, most entertaining introductions offers lucid explanations of special and general theories of relativity, gravity, and spacetime, models of the universe, and more. 100 illustrations.
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| |  Chance, Luck, and Statistics
by Horace C. Levinson
In simple, non-technical language, this volume explores the fundamentals governing chance and applies them to sports, government, and business. "Clear and lively ... remarkably accurate." — Scientific Monthly.
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 Number Theory
by George E. Andrews
Undergraduate text uses combinatorial approach to accommodate both math majors and liberal arts students. Covers the basics of number theory, offers an outstanding introduction to partitions, plus chapters on multiplicativity-divisibility, quadratic congruences, additivity, and more
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| |  An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling
by Edward A. Bender
Accessible text features over 100 reality-based examples pulled from the science, engineering and operations research fields. Prerequisites: ordinary differential equations, continuous probability. Numerous references. Includes 27 black-and-white figures. 1978 edition.
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 The Works of Archimedes
by Archimedes, Sir Thomas Heath
Complete works of ancient geometer feature such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; more.
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 General Chemistry
by Linus Pauling
Revised third edition of classic first-year text by Nobel laureate. Atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics correlated with descriptive chemistry. Problems.
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| |  The Chemical History of a Candle
by Michael Faraday
This highly readable text by a famous inventor explores the components and weight of the atmosphere; capillary attraction; carbon content in oxygen and living bodies; and much more. Numerous illustrations.
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 The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz
by G. W. Leibniz, J. M. Child
Leibniz's own accounts of his work, plus critical and historical notes and essays, include his "Historia et Origio Calculi Differentialis," manuscripts of the period 1673-77, and essays by C. I. Gerhardt.
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| |  History of Analytic Geometry
by Carl B. Boyer
This study presents the concepts and contributions from before the Alexandrian Age through to Fermat and Descartes, and on through Newton and Euler to the "Golden Age," from 1789 to 1850. 1956 edition. Analytical bibliography. Index.
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 The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus
by Margaret E. Baron
Historical account of infinitesimal calculus, beginning with background mathematical concepts from Greek, Hindu, and Arabic sources, and with particular focus on the geometric techniques and methods developed in the17th century. 1969 edition.
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