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9780802779083 | Walker & Co, July 3, 2012, cover price $16.00
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9781560256724 | Basic Books, March 27, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: National Public Radio's 'Math Guy' explains why humans possess a remarkable capacity for 'natural' math while offering words of confidence for the multitudes who are afraid of math.
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9781560258391 | Basic Books, May 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: National Public Radio's 'Math Guy' explains why humans possess a remarkable capacity for 'natural' math while offering words of confidence for the multitudes who are afraid of math.
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9781417780655, titled "Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius Along With Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs" | Turtleback Books, May 10, 2006, cover price $26.95
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9780465017300 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, October 15, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An account of the Clay Foundation's 2000 competition to solve seven high-level math problems references the Hilbert Problems of 1900 and cites the Millennium Problems' significance in the fields of math and science.
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9780465017294 | Basic Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An account of the Clay Foundation's 2000 competition to solve seven high-level math problems references the Hilbert Problems of 1900 and cites the Millennium Problems' significance in the fields of math and science.
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9780465016181, titled "The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip" | 1 edition (Basic Books, July 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of a mathematical language as a system of communication, and discusses how each individual possesses mathematical reasoning.
9780756765927 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Maths Gene explains how the human mind came to - and continues to - perform mathematical reasoning.
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9780465016198, titled "The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like Gossip" | Reprint edition (Basic Books, May 16, 2001), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The author of The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible introduces a new theory of language development to explain why some people learn to do math while others do not.
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9780716733799 | W H Freeman & Co, October 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explains both the historical development and the current breadth of mathematics without assuming any technical knowledge on the part of the reader
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9780716739678 | W H Freeman & Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Explains both the historical development and the current breadth of mathematics without assuming any technical knowledge on the part of the reader.
9780805072549 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 2000), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780471240440 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A companion book to the PBS series reveals the myriad ways mathematical ideas can explain the world
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9780471328223 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A companion book to the PBS series reveals the myriad ways mathematical ideas can explain the world
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9780231116381 | New edition (Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1999), cover price $73.00 | About this edition: Presents a survey of advances in mathematics over the past twenty-five years, including such topics as prime numbers, factories, sets, and number systems
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9780231116398 | Rev sub edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2001), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems.
9780140258653 | 2 edition (Gardners Books, May 28, 1998), cover price $23.45 | About this edition: In this computerized world, mathematics has had an impact on various aspects of our lives, yet most people believe they cannot hope to understand or enjoy the subject.
9780140135510 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1990), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: This lively and comprehensive new survey sets out to show just how mistaken people who think they can't enjoy mathematics really are.
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9780471142164 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces how the concept of the mind as a logic machine has developed over time, asserts that logic is an inadequate model for the human mind's functionality, and concludes that current efforts to replicate human thought will most likely fail
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9780471251866 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "[Goodbye, Descartes] is certain to attract attention and controversy.
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9780716760221 | Reprint edition (W H Freeman & Co, February 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "The great book of nature," said Galileo, "can be read only by those who know the language in which it is written.
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9780805073447 | Owl Books, December 1, 1996, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: To most people, mathematics means working with numbers.
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9780521410304 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Keith Devlin argues that in order to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of intelligence and knowledge acquisition, we must broaden our concept of logic.
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9780521499712 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Keith Devlin argues that in order to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of intelligence and knowledge acquisition, we must broaden our concept of logic.
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9780716750475 | W H Freeman & Co, October 1, 1994, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind.
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9780883855157 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, June 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Do you expect to find articles about mathematics in your daily newspaper?
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9780387940946 | 2 sub edition (Springer Verlag, September 1, 1993), cover price $74.95 | About this edition: This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics.
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9780080392486 | Pergamon Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $45.00
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