Joseph Mazur Books
Euclid in the Rainforest
By Joseph Mazur
Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explorelogic—the one indispensab...
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Number
By Joseph Mazur, Tobias Dantzig
"Beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands."—Albert EinsteinNumber is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the con...
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Fluke
By Joseph Mazur
Looks at coincidences and unlikely occurrences, delving into the mathematical concepts of probability and sharing stories of striking flukes and coincidences from around the world.
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