Our Mathematical World

[Richard Kennedy]

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

[Scott T. Shier]

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