Results for: books tagged ‘Mathematics’
Proof: David Auburn
Following the death of her brilliant mathematician father, Catherine struggles to come to terms with his legacy. Inheriting some of both his brilliance and his instability, she is torn between ... More
A Beautiful Mind: Sylvia Nasar
At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge ... More
The Snowflake Constant: Peter Stephan Jungk
Giacopo Tigor, eponymous hero of Peter Stephan Jungk's extraordinary novel, is a professor of mathematics, a proponent of Euclidian geometry reeling from a succession of intellectual defeats sustained at the ... More
The Common Sense of Science: Jacob Bronowski
To accompany the inclusion of Jacob Bronowski in Faber Finds, a short tribute by George Steiner. More
The Strangest Man: Graham Farmelo
The award-winning biography of Paul Dirac, the greatest British physicist since Newton, and one of the strangest geniuses of the twentieth century. More