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bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. History. Juvenile works. Picture books.Bardoe, Cheryl
Summary: "A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J921 GERFrenkel, Edward
Summary: "Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 FREAndrews, Amy
Summary: "If Ramanujan could crack the number 1 open and find infinity, what secrets would he discover inside other numbers?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RAMSzpiro, George
Contents: Fit for a king -- What flies know and ants don't -- The forensic engineer -- An Oscar for the best script -- Geometry without Euclid -- From Copenhagen and Hamburg to Black Mountain, North Carolina -- What the conjecture is really all about -- Dead ends and a mysterious disease -- Voyage to higher dimensions -- Inquisition, West Coast style -- Watching things go "pop" -- The cigar surgeon --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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Summary: Discusses the progress women have made in mathematics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRECohen, Morton N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARROLL, LEWIS COHWoolf, Jenny.
Summary: A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARROLL, LEWIS WOODunham, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 DUNAretha, David
Contents: Introduction -- Michael Jordan -- LeBron James -- Stephen Curry -- Kevin Durant -- Who's the GOAT? -- Glossary -- For more information -- For further reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 ARELivio, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 512.2 LIVBudiansky, Stephen
Summary: "The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021