Math Genius

No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. In 2006, an oddball group of...

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For thousands of years mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations, until they encountered the quintic equation, which resisted solution for three centuries. Working independently, two prodigies ultimately proved that the quintic cannot be solved by a simple formula. The first popular account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a beautifully written and dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest and most intriguing mathematicians in history.

The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age. Winner, Institute of Electrical and...

Jalen DeLuca applies his baseball genius to his own playing in the follow-up to Tim Green and Derek Jeter’s New York Times bestselling novel Baseball Genius. Jalen DeLuca loves baseball. But he’s more than just a fan and a talented player; Jalen is a baseball genius. He can analyze and...

One world has no place for dragons. Another is ruled by them. After a brutal attack leaves Finn Jones in an eight-week coma, he wakes with a terrifying new gift: numbers speak to him. Quantities, patterns, impossible calculations--his mind solves them before he can think. Doctors call it savant syndrome. The wrong people call it opportunity. On the night of his nineteenth birthday, Finn is abducted and taken to a secret island facility, where other gifted captives are being used as guinea pigs for a forbidden experiment. Among them are Ken, a brilliant linguist, and Riku, a silent prodigy ...

‘Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway’ SIMON SINGH ‘A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers’ HANNAH FRY How many cats are there in the world? What's the chance of winning the lottery twice? And just how long does it take to count to a million? Learn how to tackle...

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. 

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of...

As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his teacher David Darling reveal, complex math surrounds us. If we think long enough about the universe, we're left not with material stuff, but a ghostly and beautiful set of equations. Packed with puzzles and paradoxes, mind-bending concepts, and surprising solutions, Weird Math leads us from a lyrical exploration of mathematics in our universe to profound questions about God, chance, and infinity. A magical introduction to the mysteries of math, it will entrance beginners and seasoned mathematicians alike. 

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Spider Network by David Enrich, read by Mike Chamberlain. Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The Spider Network is the almost-unbelievable and darkly entertaining inside account of the Libor scandal – one of the...

Ren fixes clocks. It's the only thing that makes sense in a world of rain, rust, and absent fathers. He's fourteen, alone, and completely sure the universe is a machine — until a patch of impossible darkness begins eating his workshop and golden light detonates from the necklace he's worn since he was five. Within forty-eight hours, a shadow assassin has wrecked his shop, a smug old man in a tweed coat has told him magic is real, and Ren is standing in a hidden fortress-academy trying not to walk into pillars. His power is geometric, rigid, and precise. It is also, according to every test...

S. L. Huang's Critical Point is a breakout SF thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka. Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has stopped a shadow organization from brainwashing the world and discovered her past was deliberately erased and her superhuman abilities deliberately created. And...

It is indeed supremely difficult to effectively refute the claim that John von Neumann is likely the most intelligent person who has ever lived. By the time of his death in 1957 at the modest age of 53, the Hungarian polymath had not only revolutionized several subfields of mathematics and physics but also made foundational contributions to pure economics and statistics and taken key parts in the invention of the atomic bomb, nuclear energy and digital computing. Known now as “the last representative of the great mathematicians”, von Neumann’s genius was legendary even in his own ...

Sebastian Sinclair, the brilliant, synesthetic mathematician who lost everything in Volume One, is living under an assumed name, surviving on the kindness of strangers, when he finds himself on the edge of an international phenomenon: a free online game whose ever-growing jackpot has captivated billions. Sebastian has no interest in getting rich. But from where he stands, he sees what the game is really doing—not just on the streets of Seattle, but across the world. Families are ruined. Communities unravel. Hope itself becomes a commodity. Unable to look away, Sebastian turns to the one ...

Some questions do not ask to be solved. They ask to be lived. In wartime Tehran, Mina Mehran survives the darkness by inventing stories beneath a basement blanket: maps, heroines, and countries no one else can see. She dreams of becoming a novelist, until mathematics reveals itself as another kind of story—one written in curves, folded rooms, and roads that return home changed. Told she is too slow to be brilliant, Mina learns the opposite: that slowness can be devotion, and staying with a question can become a life. From a girls’ school no one thought to invite, to international ...

It's in every photo you post to Instagram, every Google search you make and every prompt you give to ChatGPT . . . Big Math - the branch of modern mathematics behind our digital revolution - operates under the hood of these everyday miracles, driving the biggest shifts in how we shop...

Hungarian polymath John von Neumann (1903–1957) once wrote that Kurt Gödel was “absolutely irreplaceable” and “in a class by himself”. Describing his 1931 proof of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, von Neumann called the achievement “Singular and monumental — indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. The subject of logic will never again be the same.” von Neumann was not alone in his admiration of Gödel. A young Alan Turing (1912–1954) sought out Gödel in 1936 to inquire about his own monumental reformulation ...

The Forgotten Geniuses: Islamic Contributions to Astronomy, Medicine, and Beyond Discover the Remarkable Legacy of the Islamic Golden Age Unlock the secrets of a transformative era with The Forgotten Geniuses: Islamic Contributions to Astronomy, Medicine, and Beyond. This meticulously researched book delves into the lives and groundbreaking achievements of forty Muslim scholars whose innovations laid the foundation for modern science and technology.Unveiling Pioneers in Science and Medicine Journey through the centuries to explore the profound contributions of luminaries like Al-Khwarizmi, ...