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Hardcover:

9780691126982 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 3, 2008, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780691158211 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 24, 2013, cover price $18.95

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The worlds of chance and statistical probability provide grist for this fascinating tour of modern life's most vexing speculative questions in the fields of mathematics and science.

Hardcover:

9780691009797 | Princeton Univ Dept of Art &, September 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The worlds of chance and statistical probability provide grist for this fascinating tour of modern life's most vexing speculative questions in the fields of mathematics and science.

Paperback:

9780691155005 | Reissue edition (Princeton Univ Pr, July 2, 2012), cover price $18.95
9780691102863 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $30.95

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Traces the development of modern pursuit theory, from its classical analytical beginnings to the present day, and provides challenging puzzles with solutions, anecdotes, and entertaining facts, in a first comprehensive history of a fascinating area of mathematics.

Hardcover:

9780691125145, titled "Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion" | Princeton Univ Pr, July 2, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of modern pursuit theory, from its classical analytical beginnings to the present day, and provides challenging puzzles with solutions, anecdotes, and entertaining facts, in a first comprehensive history of a fascinating area of mathematics.

Paperback:

9780691155012, titled "Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion" | Princeton Univ Pr, July 2, 2012, cover price $18.95

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Hardcover:

9780691118222 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 10, 2006, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9780691150376 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, April 25, 2011), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i...read more

Paperback:

9780691146003, titled "An Imaginary Tale: The Story of The Square Root of Minus One" | 1 edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 14, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma.

Miscellaneous:

9781400833894, titled "An Imaginary Tale: The Story of I the Square Root of Minus One" | Princeton Univ Pr, March 14, 2010, cover price $16.95

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Hardcover:

9780691135403 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 17, 2009, cover price $29.95

Miscellaneous:

9781400833467 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 6, 2009, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows look like in the future? Why do soap bubbles have a shape that gives them the least area? By combining the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples, Paul J...read more

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9780691130521 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 2, 2007, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet?

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Looks at optimization through the history of mathematics and contemporary examples. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780691070780 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 24, 2003, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: Looks at optimization through the history of mathematics and contemporary examples.

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Hardcover:

9780387985718 | 2 sub edition (Copernicus Books, November 1, 1998), cover price $69.99
9780883189351 | Amer Inst of Physics, September 1, 1993, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9780387952222 | 2 sub edition (Springer Verlag, January 16, 2014), cover price $54.95
9781563963711 | Amer Inst of Physics, September 1, 1993, cover price $15.95

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Hardcover:

9780691027951 | Princeton Univ Dept of Art &, August 24, 1998, cover price $49.95

Paperback:

9780691169248 | New edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 15, 2016), cover price $16.95

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Explores the theories of relativity and the science behind time travel to help writers of science fiction create their stories (view table of contents)

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9780898797480 | Writers Digest Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Explores the theories of relativity and the science behind time travel to help writers of science fiction create their stories

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Product Description: "Instead of being an abstraction, the math in this book comes alive as the tool that EEs have always thought it to be...It has a place in the libraries of experienced EEs: It does a good job not only of teaching the underlying theory of radio, but also of entertaining readers...read more

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9781563963476 | Amer Inst of Physics, April 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "Instead of being an abstraction, the math in this book comes alive as the tool that EEs have always thought it to be.

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