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“The History of Pi is so well written. It is really funny, really witty and charming – full of weird deadpan one-liners – but also incredibly opinionated. He says, ‘Not being a historian I am not obliged to wear the mask of dispassionate aloofness. Petr Beckmann was a Czech electrical engineer who lived in Czechoslovakia until he was 39 in 1963, when he went to America as a visiting professor and just stayed there.” Read more...
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In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
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Zero
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
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Damned Lies and Statistics
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Optimal Statistical Decisions
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Teaching Mathematics: Towards a Sound Alternative
by Brent Davis