This “enjoyable” biography of the brilliant astronomer will intrigue young people who are “bored with the textbook approach to science” (The New York Ti

A biography of the 16th-century mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who dared to question the scientific theories set up by Aristotle and the Church.

Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his

Numerical curiosities ranging from coincidences and the first moon walk, to proposition bets involving dice and cards.

Superb, stimulating account of origins of mathematical thought and development of numerical theory. Probes the work of Pythagoras, Galileo, Berkeley, Einstein,