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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…
Fermat's Last Theorem: The Riddle That Baffled the World's Sharpest Minds for 358 Years
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2013
Why does a pure mathematics problem deserve three hundred and fifty-eight years of pursuit? The answer this book gives is: because behind the answer s…
Reflections on Mathematics: The Development and Evolution of Mathematical Thought from Ancient Times to the Present
Posts & Telecom Press · 2010
Mathematics is everywhere, yet it is perplexing: why can it describe the universe with such precision? Is it a human invention, or an objective realit…
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…
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, …
The History of Algebra: Humanity's Relentless Pursuit of the Unknown
Posts & Telecom Press · 2021
This book is the Chinese translation of Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra by the popular-science writer John Derbyshire. Retra…
The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems and Personalities
Posts & Telecom Press · 2011
Mathematicians like to tell history as a list of theorems, but Dunham tells it as a book with a plot. The cleverest design of this book is its alphabe…
The Mathematical Meditations: The Development and Evolution of Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times
Posts & Telecom Press · 2010
Mathematics is everywhere, permeating almost every field: it can describe planetary orbits, the vibration of strings, and cell division, and it underp…
The Gossip Calculus
Zhejiang Publishing United Group · 2017
The Gossip Calculus is a short popular-math book by Zhihu author Wang You, part of the Zhihu "One Hour" series (HOUR·092), published in 2017 by Zhejia…
The Secret of π: Everything About Circles
CITIC Press · 2021
What exactly is π? Why were the ancient Greeks so fixated on "squaring the circle," and why was this problem ultimately proven impossible? This book i…
Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
Fudan University Press · 2007
This book is the magnum opus of the Hungarian-born British philosopher Imre Lakatos (1922–1974), first published as essays in the 1960s and later edit…
The Elements of Geometry
The Commercial Press · 2020
The Elements of Geometry is a thirteen-volume mathematical work written by the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid around 300 BCE. It is one of the mos…
Great Feuds in Mathematics: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
Fudan University Press · 2009
This book is the mathematics volume in American science writer Hal Hellman's "Great Feuds" series, focusing on ten famous academic disputes in the his…
The Beauty of Geometry
Peking University Press · 2025
This book comprises 28 chapters covering topics such as straightedge-and-compass constructions—an exploration spanning two millennia—Platonic solids, …
Leibniz's Calculus
Peking University Press · 2025
This book contains both the process by which Leibniz created calculus and the defenses Leibniz made on his own behalf during the calculus priority dis…
Screaming Mathematics: The Astonishing Beauty of Mathematics
Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2026
This is an accessible history of mathematics, gathering the thrilling moments in the history of mathematics and showing readers the consequences and i…
Euclid's Window
Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2025
Following The Grand Tour, the author offers another engaging popular treatment of geometry. Through the stories of Euclid, Descartes, Gauss, Einstein,…
William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Principal Theories of Geometry
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …