Man Math

Welcome to the Most Confusing Math Class Ever Ladies. I was told there would be no math after high school. Apparently that was a lie. Because here we are. Trying to calculate why a man can watch all 47 of your Instagram stories but somehow can't answer a text. Trying to understand how someone can say: "I don't want a relationship." And then immediately become somebody else's boyfriend. Trying to figure out how a grown man can own three gaming systems, two televisions, and a fantasy football league but still claim he's "figuring himself out." This is Boy Math. A mysterious branch of ...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?” “Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable...

An audio tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" This is an audiobook about math, but it contains no numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be...

The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us...

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly...

Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian “Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman “One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of...

Everyone loved Alexander Hartwell before he ever understood what love was supposed to cost. As a boy, Alex Hartwell is brilliant, disciplined, handsome, and almost impossible not to admire. He grows into the lawyer who fights for the poor, the governor who never loses, and finally the president who tells a wounded nation that the system can still be made merciful. For a while, America believes him. His wife, Claire, stands beside him. His daughter, Emma, grows up inside the glow of his promise. Crowds chant his name as if goodness itself has found a voice. To the country, Alexander Hartwell...

She remembers the love that burned. She has forgotten the love that saved her. When Maya Vale wakes after a devastating accident, five years of her life are gone. In her mind, she is still the woman who loved Adam Reed: brilliant, dangerous, impossible to resist. Adam is the fire she remembers clearly, the man whose name still knows how to hurt her. But the quiet man at her hospital bedside says he is her husband. Julian Vale is patient, careful, and almost unbearably kind. He brings her home to a harbor town she does not remember, to a house that knows her better than she knows herself, to...

Brought to you by Penguin. The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for...

"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic story of the greatest quest in all of science—the holy grail of physics that would explain the creation of the universe—from renowned theoretical physicist and author of The Future of the Mind and The Future of Humanity. When Newton discovered the...

Brought to you by Penguin. A searing critique of the crony-capitalist, talent-scraping culture of the Stanford elites, by a brilliant young journalist When seventeen-year old Theo Baker arrived at Stanford University one brisk September morning, its manicured lawns, palm trees and sparkling...

He made himself impossible to abandon. Then he built an empire no one could escape. Adrian Vale learned early that money changes the temperature of a room. Quiet, watchful, and terrified of being left behind, he made a private vow: become valuable enough, and no one would ever leave. Decades later, the world calls him the first trillionaire in history. Adrian owns pieces of the future governments cannot function without: power grids, hospitals, robotics, orbital rockets, and the first factory ever built on the Moon. Presidents wait for his calls. Markets rise and fall on his silence. His ...

"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill Gates An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production. Vaclav...

An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological advances -- the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery."I cannot recommend this book strongly enough."--Henry Marsh, author of Do No...

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Compelling….Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip” —The New York Times Book Review The New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACE tackles the most...

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers. “Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty We live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable. How should we deal with what we don’t know? And what role do chance, luck and...

Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital “clouds” to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles. Most of us are clueless when...