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What Is a Vector?
CITIC Press · 2025
Mathematics began five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, yet the concept of a vector—combining "magnitude" and "direction" into one entity—was not fo…
Fermat's Last Theorem: The Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2005
Around 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat wrote a famous note in the margin of a Latin translation of Diophantus's Arithmetica: it is imp…
Images in the Abstract: The Story of Figures
Tsinghua University Press · 2020
Images in the Abstract: The Story of Figures is a popular mathematics book co-authored by mathematics educator Zhang Yuannan and Zhang Chang, part of …
Measurement: A Love Song for Mathematics
Posts & Telecom Press · 2015
Measurement: A Love Song for Mathematics is a popular mathematics book by the American mathematician and St. Ann's School mathematics teacher Paul Loc…
Mathematics
Yilin Press · 2014
This book is a short introduction to mathematics for general readers by Timothy Gowers, a British mathematician, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics a…
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2012
This book is a biography of Alan Turing by the British mathematician Andrew Hodges, originally published in English as Alan Turing: The Enigma in 1983…
The Mathematics of Love: How to Use Math to Find True Love?
CITIC Press · 2016
Love and mathematics seem to have nothing to do with each other: human emotions do not follow rules, let alone run according to formulas. But mathemat…
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: A Ubiquitous Problem in Computer Science
Posts & Telecom Press · 2013
The traveling salesman problem is often held up as the classic case of something that looks simple but is in fact impossibly hard, yet few books expla…
Fun Games for Primary Schoolers: Math Games Every Kid Will Love
Zhejiang Juvenile and Children's Publishing House · 2011
Mathematicians often say math is fun, yet beginners find it hard to see why. This book uses "playing games" as the way in: it helps primary schoolers …
Autobiography
Autobiography is the lengthy memoir written in his later years by the British philosopher, mathematician, and logician Bertrand Russell (1872–1970). I…
Flatland
Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020
Flatland
The Mathematical Universe: Ideas, Discoveries, People, and History
Posts & Telecom Press · 2011
This book is a collection of short popular-mathematics essays by the American historian of mathematics William Dunham, originally titled The Mathemati…
My View of Education: Shing-Tung Yau on Learning and Living
CITIC Press · 2025
My View of Education: Shing-Tung Yau on Learning and Living is a collection of educational essays compiled by the mathematician and educator Shing-Tun…
Prodigious Scholar
Qidian · 2016
Prodigious Scholar is an urban-life web novel by Qidian author Vesterparler. Serialization began in 2016; the completed book runs about 1.5 million Ch…
Foundation Prequel 1: Prelude to Foundation
Sichuan Publishing Group · Tiandi Publishing House · 2005
Prelude to Foundation is the first prequel in Asimov's Foundation series and, in the internal chronology of the story, the beginning of the entire ser…
The Difference Engine
New Star Press · 2013
"The Difference Engine," co-written by American authors William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and published in 1990, is regarded as the founding work of t…
The Humans
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017
An alien envoy from the planet Volnado is dispatched to Earth on a mission involving Andrew Martin, a Cambridge University mathematician who has crack…
Ten Great Ideas About Chance
CITIC Press · 2019
This is a popular introduction to probability theory, telling the story of ten great ideas about probability that everyone should know, and the people…
The Beauty of Formulas
Peking University Press · 2020
Humankind describes the universe through formulas: from the humble starting point of 1+1=2 to the mass-energy equation and the Schrödinger equation, a…
The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities
Posts & Telecom Press · 2011
Fitting all of mathematics into 26 letters sounds like a gimmick, but Dunham actually pulls it off. He starts with arithmetic, passes through circle, …