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9780307377357 | Pantheon Books, October 30, 2012, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world.
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9780684819068, titled "A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994" | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1998, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, jr.
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9780743226370 | Scribner, December 1, 2001, cover price $7.99
9780743226370 | Scribner, December 1, 2001, cover price $7.99
9780684853703, titled "A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994" | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1999, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, jr.
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9780125450300 | Academic Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The first biography of Oscar Zariski - arguably one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.
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9780387094298 | Springer Verlag, November 14, 2008, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Oscar Zariski’s work in mathematics permanently altered the foundations of algebraic geometry.
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9780934223935 | Lehigh Univ Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Benjamin Peirce gained international prominence in nineteenth-century American science from his work on the perturbationsof Neptune.
9781611460469 | Lehigh Univ Pr, January 1, 2008, cover price $80.00
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9781568811505 | A K Peters Ltd, May 30, 2005, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Saunders Mac Lane was an extraordinary mathematician, a dedicated teacher, and a good citizen who cared deeply about the values of science and education.
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9780738203683 | Basic Books, December 13, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A definitive portrait of the eccentric mathematical genius and founder of the science of cybernetics traces the life and career of Norbert Wiener; his role in the evolution of computers, automation, and global telecommunications; and his ardent social activism and warnings about the human consequences of technology run amok.
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Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
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9780786242238 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.
9780786242238 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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9780743509893 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, December 1, 2001), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
9780786193516 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780786117444 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $85.95 | About this edition: At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour.
9780786117444 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $85.95 | About this edition: At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour.
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9780606242424, titled "Beautiful Mind" | Demco Media, November 1, 2002, cover price $25.69 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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9781417740833, titled "Beautiful Mind" | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $28.25 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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9780743224574 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, December 4, 2001), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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9780786122158 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 2002), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In this powerful and dramatic biography, Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
9780743509886 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, December 1, 2001), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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9781568811161 | A K Peters Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: In this charming memoir, a renowned mathematician and winner of the American Book Award traces his career in mathematics from early lessons in horse racing and the realities of life to his adventures on the lecture circuit.
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9780821820643, titled "John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More" | Amer Mathematical Society, September 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Born in Budapest in 1903, John von Neumann grew up in one of the most extraordinary of scientific communities.
9780679413080 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A biography of the man regarded as the greatest scientist since Einstein moves from the laboratory to the highest levels of government, showing how von Neumann's theories provided the building blocks for the modern computer, the atom bomb, radar, artificial intelligence, and more
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9780821826768, titled "John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More" | 2 edition (Amer Mathematical Society, June 1, 2000), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: This volume is the reprinted edition of the first full-scale biography of the man widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the century after Einstein.
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9780821820452 | Amer Mathematical Society, February 1, 2000, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: In 1957 Stephen Smale startled the mathematical world by showing that, in a theoretical sense, it is possible to turn a sphere inside out.
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9780684828213 | Free Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Follows the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most politically and economically influential engineers and inventors
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9780262740227 | Mit Pr, June 11, 1999, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes.
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9780387983578 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1997, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Jerzy Neyman received the National Medal of Science "for laying the foundations of modern statistics and devising tests and procedures that have become essential parts of the knowledge of every statistician.
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9780883855201 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, July 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In high school Julia Bowman stood alone as the only girl - and the best student - in the junior and senior math classes.
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Product Description: This book chronicles the Society's activities over fifty years, as membership grew, as publications became more numerous and diverse, as the number of meetings and conferences increased, and as services to the mathematical community expanded.
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9780821801253 | Amer Mathematical Society, July 1, 1997, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: This book chronicles the Society's activities over fifty years, as membership grew, as publications became more numerous and diverse, as the number of meetings and conferences increased, and as services to the mathematical community expanded.
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9780821806333 | Amer Mathematical Society, October 1, 1996, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Walter Rudin's memoirs should prove to be a delightful read specifically to mathematicians, but also to historians who are interested in learning about his colorful history and ancestry.
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9780387946702 | Copernicus Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: ".
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Product Description: This book is a comprehensive study of the life and mathematics of Walter Noll, who helped to create the mathematical tools of modern rational mechanics and thermodynamics. Noll is one of the brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century...read more
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9783540594406 | Springer Verlag, January 1, 1996, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: This book is a comprehensive study of the life and mathematics of Walter Noll, who helped to create the mathematical tools of modern rational mechanics and thermodynamics.
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Product Description: Edgar Krahn was one of the two authors of the celebrated FaberKrahn inequality connected with the Rayleigh conjecture and who was one of the first to consider isoperimetric problems in the multidimensional case. This volume commenmorates his 100th birthday and surveys the major implicaions of his work in this century...read more
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9789051991680 | Ios Pr Inc, October 1, 1995, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Edgar Krahn was one of the two authors of the celebrated FaberKrahn inequality connected with the Rayleigh conjecture and who was one of the first to consider isoperimetric problems in the multidimensional case.
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9780883855089 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, August 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960) was a distinguished mathematician and a best selling popularizer of mathematics.
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9780385415804 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 1, 1993), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: John von Neumann invented the digital computer, played a key role in the development of the atom bomb, constructed a branch of mathematics known as game theory, and became a defender of a movement to bomb the Russians before they could bomb us.
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9780385415675 | Doubleday, February 1, 1992, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A biography of one of the most influential thinkers of the century tells how John von Neumann invented the digital computer and constructed a game theory called prisoner's dilemma, which was often used as an allegory for the nuclear arms race
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9780387975092 | Springer Verlag, May 1, 1991, cover price $99.00
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9780817622466 | Birkhauser, April 1, 1990, cover price $158.00
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Product Description: This explorative insight into the life and legacy of the famous Polish mathematician reveals his background and focuses on current research inspired by Stanislaw's vision. The text includes two pieces written by Stanislaw and personal conversations on John von Newmann and Paul Erdos...read more
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9780521364942 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This explorative insight into the life and legacy of the famous Polish mathematician reveals his background and focuses on current research inspired by Stanislaw's vision.
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