Original anthology features less-technical essays discussing logic, topology, abstract algebra, relativity theory, and the works of David Hilbert. Most have bee

The book contains popular expositions (accessible to readers with no more than a high school mathematics background) on the mathematical theory of infinity, and

Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an a

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the ch