Math Dept Library

Here is a list of our departmental virtual library books. If you are interested in borrowing them, please contact the owners. To add your books to the list, contact Kay. Happy reading!

Kanchan (x2926)

kmathur@clark.edu

$bullet$	The Man Who Knew Infinity – a biography of Ramanujam
$bullet$	Our under-achieving colleges – Derek Bok
$bullet$	Square Root of 2 – David Flannery
$bullet$	Euler, the master of us all – William Dunham
$bullet$	How to teach Mathematics – Steven Krantz
$bullet$	Adam Spencer’s book of numbers
$bullet$	How to ace Calculus – Adams, Thompson and Hass
$bullet$	How to solve it – G. Polya
$bullet$	The Math Gene – Keith Devlin
$bullet$	The Millennium Problems – Keith Devlin
$bullet$	Once upon a number – John Allen Poulos
$bullet$	The art of the infinite – Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
$bullet$	Geek Logic - ?

Kay (x2809)

kbarnhill@clark.edu

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Berloquin, Pierre

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"100 Perceptual Puzzles"

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Burns, Marilyn

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"Math: Facing an American Phobia"

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Devlin, Keith

$bullet$	"The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Area Like Gossip"
$bullet$	"Mathematics: The New Golden Age"

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Dunham, William

$bullet$	"The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue"
$bullet$	"Euler: The Master of Us All"
$bullet$	"Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics"
$bullet$	"The mathematical Universe"

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Hardy, G.H.

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"A Mathematician's Apology"

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Larson, Loren C.

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"Problem-Solving through Problems"

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Ma, Liping

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"Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics"

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Paulos, John Allen

$bullet$	"Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences"
$bullet$	"Once upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories"

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Salem, Lionel et al.

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"The Most Beautiful Mathematical Formulas"

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Stubhaug, Arild

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"Niels Henrik Abel and His Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar"

Paul (x2545)

pcasillas@clark.edu

Biography

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I Want to Be a Mathematician by Paul R. Halmos

Paul Halmos’s automathography. A candid look at a well-known contemporary mathematician.

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Adventures of a Mathematician by Stanislaw Ulum

Ulum was in on the early work in topology in the Polish school and worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during WWII.

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More Mathematical People ed. By D. J. Albers et al

Interviews with eighteen late 20th century mathematicians. (The predecessor volume is Mathematical People. We have a copy in the Clark library)

Careers/applications

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101 Careers in Mathematics ed. by Andrew Sterrett

Two to three page essays by 101 people who work in mathematics-related fields.

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She Does Math! Real Life Problems from Women on the Job ed. by Marla Parker

Thirty-eight women working in mathematics-related fields discuss their careers and give sample problems from their work.

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Mathematics Today ed. by Lynn. A. Steen

Non-technical survey of applications of contemporary mathematics. (The successor volume is Mathematics Tomorrow. I don’t own a copy.)

More to come on math history and statistics when I have time.

Last revised on Jan.1, 2007