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The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story

The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story

How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' alwa...
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Quantum Profiles

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Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms

Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms

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Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future

Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future

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Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics

Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics

Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a se...
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Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

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Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962

Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962

At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy’s major public health problem. It was the...
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The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution

The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution

In this masterful account, a historian of science surveys the molecular biology revolution, its orig...
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Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections

Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections

At the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for...
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The Alchemy of Disease: How Chemicals and Toxins Cause Cancer and Other Illnesses

The Alchemy of Disease: How Chemicals and Toxins Cause Cancer and Other Illnesses

Since the dawn of the industrial age, we have unleashed a bewildering number of potentially harmful...
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The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time

The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time

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Trigonometric Delights

Trigonometric Delights

Trigonometry has a reputation as a dry, difficult branch of mathematics, a glorified form of geometr...
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The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation

The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation

The Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, an...
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

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