Amir D. Aczel

Provides a study of seventeenth-century French scholar Pierre de Fermat, the centuries-long effort to prove his theorem, and the work of Andrew Wiles, a Princeton researcher who ultimately came up with the solution

Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem

Fermat's Last Theorem

Why science does not disprove God

Journeys into the work of Georg Cantor, a Russian-born German mathematician, who developed set theory and the concept of infinite numbers, but was condemned by his peers and spent many years in an asylum.

Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity

The Mystery of the Aleph

A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else

Chance

Discusses the twelfth-century invention of the compass, its dramatic influence on navigation and the rise of Italian sea power, and its impact on the development of world trade and the Age of Discovery.

The Invention that Changed the World

The Riddle of the Compass

Ken Ono

How I Learned to Count

My Search for Ramanujan

The best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem traces his adventurous search to find the original sources of numerals, an effort that took him through the artifacts of the ancient world and ultimately deep into a Cambodian jungle.

A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

Finding Zero

"Bestselling popular science author Amir Aczel selects the most fascinating individuals and stories in the history of mathematics, presenting a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personalities behind some of the most profound, enduring theorems. Through such mathematical geniuses as Archimedes, Leonardo of Pisa (a.k.a. Fibonacci), Tartaglia ("the stutterer"), Descartes, Gottfried Liebniz, Carl Gauss, Joseph Fourier (Napoleon's mathematician), Evariste Galois, Georg Cantor, Ramanujan, and "Nicholas Bourbaki," we gather little known details about the alliances and rivalries that profoundly impacted the development of what the scheming doctor-turned-mathematician Geronimo Cardano called "The Great Art." This story of mathematics is not your dry "college textbook" account; tales of duels, battlefield heroism, flamboyant arrogance, pranks, secret societies, imprisonment, feuds, theft, and even some fatal errors of judgment fill these pages (clearly, genius doesn't guarantee street smarts). Ultimately, readers will come away from this book entertained, with a newfound appreciation of the tenacity, complexity, eccentricity, and brilliance of the mathematical genius"--

the lives of the great mathematicians

A strange wilderness

An exploration of current theories in quantum mechanics considers the feasibility of teleportation, sharing Einstein's entanglement studies, the discoveries from new experiments, and the implications of entanglement capabilities. Reprint.

The Unlikely Story of how Scientists, Mathematicians, and Philosophers Proved Einstein's Spookiest Theory

Entanglement

Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man

The Jesuit and The Skull

the story of CERN and the large hadron collider

Present at the creation

Probability 1

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The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed

The Artist and the Mathematician

the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age

Uranium wars

Using Einstein's theories to explain the most recent contributions of cosmology, the author celebrates the great physicist through his research and personal correspondence, arguing that his work stands at the center of the search for the origins of the universe.

Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe

God's Equation

A portrait of the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician looks at his interest in mysticism and probable membership in the occult brotherhood of Rosicrucians, and his secret notebook, which he kept in code, attempting to redecipher the contents of the long-lost volume.

A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe

Descartes' Secret Notebook

"The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his father’s approval, he invoked the biography of the famous Indian mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan, whom his father revered, who had twice flunked out of college because of his single-minded devotion to mathematics. Ono describes his rocky path through college and graduate school, interweaving Ramanujan’s story with his own and telling how at key moments, he was inspired by Ramanujan and guided by mentors who encouraged him to pursue his interest in exploring Ramanujan’s mathematical legacy. Picking up where others left off, beginning with the great English mathematician G.H. Hardy, who brought Ramanujan to Cambridge in 1914, Ono has devoted his mathematical career to understanding how in his short life, Ramanujan was able to discover so many deep mathematical truths, which Ramanujan believed had been sent to him as visions from a Hindu goddess. And it was Ramanujan who was ultimately the source of reconciliation between Ono and his parents. Ono’s search for Ramanujan ranges over three continents and crosses paths with mathematicians whose lives span the globe and the entire twentieth century and beyond. Along the way, Ken made many fascinating discoveries. The most important and surprising one of all was his own humanity."

Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

Pendulum

What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us? "Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fat–burning stone candles, often crawling on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground . . . to paint amazing, haunting images of animals?" —From The Cave and the Cathedral Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology. "A well-researched and highly readable exploration of one of the most spectacular manifestations of the unique human creative spirit–and one of its most intriguing mysteries." —Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and author of The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution

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