Best Mathematics History Books
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1. Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
Author: by Ben Orlin
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Black Dog & Leventhal
September 18, 2018
A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange symbols, and the wild leaps of logic and faith that define the usually impenetrable work of the mathematician.
Truth and knowledge come in multiple forms: colorful drawings, encouraging jokes, and the stories and insights of an empathetic teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin shows us how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a brand-new game of tic-tac-toe, how to understand an economic crises by rolling a pair of dice, and the mathematical headache that ensues when attempting to build a spherical Death Star.
Every discussion in the book is illustrated with Orlin’s trademark “bad drawings,” which convey his message and insights with perfect pitch and clarity. With 24 chapters covering topics from the electoral college to human genetics to the reasons not to trust statistics, Math with Bad Drawings is a life-changing book for the math-estranged and math-enamored alike.
2. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Author: by Margot Lee Shetterly
William Morrow Paperbacks
English
368 pages
The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in spacea powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America.
The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as human computers used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff.
3. Math Refresher for Adults: The Perfect Solution (Mastering Essential Math Skills)
Author: by Richard W Fisher
Math Essentials
English
270 pages
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ISBN 978-0-9994433-4-7We now have English, Spanish, and bilingual editions for many of our titles.Don’t wait!Get started now! ABOUT THIS BOOK: Perfect for all math students! Math Refresher for Adults is the perfect solution for anyone needing a math refresher.
Excellent for home school parents who want to help their kids with math. Includes video tutorials – One for each lesson! A Few Reasons Why You May Need This Book:You have a math phobia. You have forgotten most of the math that you learned.
4. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author: by Douglas R Hofstadter
Basic Books
English
824 pages
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis CarrollDouglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it.
If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gdel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
5. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
Author: by Steven Strogatz
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Mariner Books
October 2, 2012
Delightful …Easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You’ll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again! Scientific American Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not.
In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, insight, and brilliant illustrations. Whether he is illuminating how often you should flip your mattress to get the maximum lifespan from it, explaining just how Google searches the internet, or determining how many people you should date before settling down, Strogatz shows how math connects to every aspect of life.
Discussing pop culture, medicine, law, philosophy, art, and business, Strogatz is the math teacher you wish you’d had. Whether you aced integral calculus or aren’t sure what an integer is, you’ll find profound wisdom and persistent delight in The Joy of x.
6. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Author: by Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin Books
English
480 pages
Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read .. .” Evelyn Lamb, Scientific AmericanThe Freakonomics of matha math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned.
In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we dothe whole world is shot through with it.
Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport?
What does public opinion really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the laymanminus the jargon.
7. McGraw-Hill Education Math Grade 6, Second Edition
Author: by McGraw Hill
McGraw-Hill Education
English
176 pages
All the Math Your 6th Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value.
The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence. Features include: A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 6 Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scoresin class and on achievement tests A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work End-of-chapter tests to measure students’ progress A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book More than 1,000 math problems with answersTopics covered: Place values and estimating Number properties and order of operations Negative numbers and absolute value Factors and multiples Solving problems with rational numbers Ratios and proportions Percent Exponents and scientific notation Solving equations and inequalities Customary and metric units of measure, including conversions Solving problems by graphing points on the coordinate plane Classifying polygons based on their properties Calculating perimeter, area, surface area, and volume Data presentation Statistical variability, including probability
8. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Author: by Steven Strogatz
Mariner Books
English
400 pages
All the Math Your 7th Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value.
The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence. Features include: A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 7 Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scoresin class and on achievement tests A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work End-of-chapter tests to measure students’ progress A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book More than 1,000 math problems with answersTopics covered: Mathematical operations and number properties Negative numbers and absolute value Solving problems with rational numbers Ratios and proportions Percent and percent change Graphing relationships and unit rates Roots and exponents Scientific notation Solving equations and inequalities Customary and metric units of measure, including conversions Data presentation Statistics and probability Constructing and analyzing geometric figures Solving problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume
10. The Maths Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Author: by DK
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DK (September 5, 2019)
September 5, 2019
See how maths’ infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this captivating educational book! Discover more than 85 of the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and proofs ever devised with this beautifully illustrated book. Get to know the great minds whose revolutionary discoveries changed our world today.
You don’t have to be a maths genius to follow along with this book! This brilliant book is packed with short, easy-to-grasp explanations, step-by-step diagrams, and witty illustrations that play with our ideas about numbers. What is an imaginary number?
Can two parallel lines ever meet? How can maths help us predict the future? All will be revealed and explained in this encyclopedia of mathematics. It’s as easy as 1, 2, and 3! The Maths Book tells the exciting story of how mathematical thought advanced through history.
This diverse and inclusive account will have something for everybody, including the maths behind world economies and espionage. This book charts the development of maths around the world. From ancient mathematical ideas and inventions, such as prehistoric tally bones through to the developments in mathematics during medieval and Renaissance Europe.
11. Sat Math Workbook (Barron's Test Prep)
Author: by Lawrence S. Leff M.S.
Barrons Educational Series
English
592 pages
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12. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Author: by Gregory Zuckerman
Portfolio
English
384 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardThe unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm-and made $23 billion doing it. Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history.
No other investor-Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros-can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic approach that’s sweeping the world.
As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research, education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump’s victorious 2016 effort.
13. The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide (Official Overstreet Indian Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide)
Author: by Robert M Overstreet
Krause Publications
English
1120 pages
The Ultimate Guide to Indian Arrowheads! Long considered the Bible of arrowhead collecting, The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide is an encyclopedic guide to projectile points found in the contiguous United States, as well as Alaska. Featuring more than 12,000 images of points from 10 distinct geographical regions, readers gain an understanding of arrowhead types, manufacturing, grading, materials and values.
A substantial and massive reference unmatched in the marketplace, The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide is the most respected book on the subject. Hands-on reference to everything arrowheads all in one book: arrowhead types, manufacturing, grading materials, values 12,000 actual size photographs covering hundreds of point types Special sections on how to grade, identify and catalog your points Covers arrowheads found from throughout the United States including Alaska
14. Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Author: by Matt Parker
English
336 pages
0593084691
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICKThe book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, When am I ever going to use this in the real world? Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity’s all-time greatest miscalculationsthat also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes.
Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes …Until it doesn’t.
All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean.
15. McGraw-Hill Education Math Grade 8, Second Edition
Author: by McGraw Hill
McGraw-Hill Education
English
192 pages
All the Math Your 8th Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value.
The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence. Features include: A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 8 Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scoresin class and on achievement tests A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work End-of-chapter tests to measure students’ progress A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book More than 1,000 math problems with answersTopics covered: Solving problems with rational numbers Approximating irrational numbers Ratios, proportions, and percents Roots and exponents Performing operations with scientific notation Analyzing and solving linear equations and pairs of linear equations Graphing proportional relationships and functions Customary and metric units of measure, including conversions Geometric transformations Using the Pythagorean Theorem Solving problems involving volume of cones, sphere Analyzing patterns in bivariate data, including probability
16. Euclid's Elements
Author: by Euclid
Green Lion Press
English
529 pages
The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary.
