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A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
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Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math
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Great Feuds in Mathematics: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
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The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
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Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot
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Life By the Numbers
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The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe
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Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution
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The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
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Carl Sagan: A Life
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Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art
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Quick Arithmetic: A Self-Teaching Guide
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In Pursuit of Godliness and a Living Judaism: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
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Women of Means
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Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot
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Portraits of Genius Friends
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In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey
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Doc: The Rise and Rise of Julius Erving
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The Man with the Golden Flute: Sir James, a Celtic Minstrel
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Gandhi: A Life
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Fabulous Female Firsts
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An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer's Life
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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life
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You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant
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