Secrets of Mental Math
The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
Written by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $10.99

These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.

Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin... Read more >

Cracking the AP Calculus AB & BC Exams, 2013 Edition

Written by Princeton Review

Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $12.99

If you need to know it, it’s in this book. Cracking the AP Calculus AB and BC Exams, 2013 Edition has been optimized for e-reader viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations, and includes: 

   • 5 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations (3 for AB and 2 for BC)
   • A comprehensive review of all... Read more >

The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Written by Leonard Mlodinow

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $11.99

With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.

 

By showing us the true nature of... Read more >

The Fractalist
Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
Written by Benoit Mandelbrot

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $14.99

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world.

Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and erratic physical phenomena. In...

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The Golden Ratio
The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Written by Mario Livio

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $15.99

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered... Read more >

Paradox
The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
Written by Jim Al-Khalili

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $11.99

A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes.

   Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense.  These we call paradoxes.  The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds. ... Read more >

A Tour of the Calculus

Written by David Berlinski

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $11.99

In its largest aspect, the calculus functions as a celestial measuring tape, able to order the infinite expanse of the universe. Time and space are given names, points, and limits; seemingly intractable problems of motion, growth, and form are reduced to answerable questions. Calculus was humanity's first attempt to represent the... Read more >

Proving Darwin
Making Biology Mathematical
Written by Gregory Chaitin

Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $11.99

Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.
 
For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved by blind chance. But does Darwin’s...

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Math and the Mona Lisa
The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci
Written by Bulent Atalay

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $12.99

   Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the Mona Lisa picks up where The Da Vinci Code left off... Read more >

The Secrets of Triangles
A Mathematical Journey
Written by Alfred S. Posamentier

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $12.99

Requiring no more than a knowledge of high school mathematics and written in clear and accessible language, this book will give all readers a new insight into some of the most enjoyable and fascinating aspects of geometry. Everyone knows what a triangle is, yet very few people appreciate that the common... Read more >