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Our Mathematical World
About a decade ago National Geographic published a series of 60 books titled "Our Mathematical World". Having one of my undergraduate degrees in Mathematics, I found these books fascinating. Unfortunately, they were only issued in the United Kingdom. The postage for my set was slightly less than the cost of the books!
| No. | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Golden Ratio: The mathematical language of beauty |
| 2 | Mathematicians, Spies and Hackers: Coding and cryptography |
| 3 | Prime Numbers: A long road to infinity |
| 4 | When Straight lines become Curves: Non-Euclidean geometry |
| 5 | The Sect of Numbers: Pythagoras' theorem |
| 6 | Secrets of the Number Pi: Why is it impossible to square the circle? |
| 7 | Fermat's Enigma: Three centuries of mathematical challenge |
| 8 | Prisoners with Dilemmas and Dominant Strategies: Game theory |
| 9 | A New Way of Seeing the World: fractal geometry |
| 10 | Underground Maps and Neural Networks: The theory of graphs |
| 11 | The Fourth Dimension: Is our universe the shadow of another? |
| 12 | Harmony is Numerical: Music and mathematics |
| 13 | Absolute Certainty and Other Fictions: The secrets of statistics |
| 14 | The truth is the limit: Infinitesimal calculus |
| 15 | From the Abacus to the Digital Revolution: Algorithms and computing |
| 16 | Playing with the Senses: Art through mathematical eyes |
| 17 | On the Other Side of the Mirror: Symmetry in mathematics |
| 18 | An Endless Discovery: Mathematical infinity |
| 19 | Mortgages and Equations: Mathematics of the economy |
| 20 | Creativity in Mathematics: How a marvelous mind works |
| 21 | Notable Numbers: 0, 666 and other numerical beasts |
| 22 | The Dream of Reason: Mathematical logic and its paradoxes |
| 23 | The Thousand Faces of Geometric Beauty: The polyhedra |
| 24 | The Conquest of Chance: Probability theory |
| 25 | Fleeting Ideas, Eternal Theorems: Great problems in mathematics |
| 26 | The Dream of the Perfect Map: Cartography and mathematics |
| 27 | The Poetry of Numbers: The role of beauty in mathematics |
| 28 | The Mathematics of Life: Numbers in biology and ecology |
| 29 | Curious curves: Ellipses, hyperbolae and other geometric marvels |
| 30 | Cosmic calculations: Astronomy and mathematics |
| 31 | The Secret Life of Numbers: Curious topics in mathematics |
| 32 | The Butterfly and the Tornado: Chaos theory and climate change |
| 33 | Minds, Machines and Mathematics: Artificial intelligence and its challenges |
| 34 | The Art of Counting: Combinatorial analysis and enumeration |
| 35 | Until Algebra do us Part: Group theory and its applications |
| 36 | Distorting and Transforming Shapes: Mathematical topology |
| 37 | Women in Mathematics: From Hypatia to Emmy Noether |
| 38 | Getting the Measure of the World: Calendars, lengths and mathematics |
| 39 | Mathematical Network: International groups and congresses |
| 40 | Planet Mathematics: A numerical journey around the world |
| 41 | The Sphere that wanted to be Infinite: The paradoxes of measurement |
| 42 | A Mathematical Journey from the Particle to Everything: The mathematics of gases |
| 43 | Unsolvable Problems - do they exist?: Mathematics, complexity and computing |
| 44 | The Endless Mosaic: Tessellations and drawings on the plane |
| 45 | When Mathematics goes to the Polls: Decision processes |
| 46 | e for Extraordinary: The history and applications of the constant e |
| 47 | Easy or Difficult?: Teaching and learning mathematics |
| 48 | Mathematical Bits: Information and communication theory |
| 49 | Mathematics on the Front Page: Statistics and the media |
| 50 | From Chess to Graphs: The mathematical seriousness of games |
| 51 | The Power of Data: From big data to deep learning |
| 52 | All Tied Up: Introduction to knot theory |
| 53 | Living in a Small World: The mathematics of social networks |
| 54 | The Story of an Imaginary Number: The square root of -1 |
| 55 | Catastrophe Theory: Between equilibrium and change |
| 56 | The Secret of Good Organization: Logistics and mathematics |
| 57 | Any More Bids?: The mathematics of auctions |
| 58 | Bayes' Theorem: Targeting the truth |
| 59 | Observations, Measures and Models: The mathematics behind scientific experimen |
| 60 | Geometry at Close Quarters: The mathematics of everyday life |
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Permalink Reply by Scott T. Shier on
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Another strange coincidence.....I only just this past week stumbled upon this series, as in, found out it existed. And yes I noted that it was a non-US release. There was another lavish, smart series released perhaps around the same timeframe, and I am forgetting the name of it. I want to say it was "Historia" with many volumes, available as an installment subscription series.
Congratulations on your acquisition and I can imagine what the S+H was!
- Scott
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