MSN home
Mail
My MSN
Sign in
encarta
greeting cards
more
Hotmail
Messenger
My MSN
MSN Directory
Air Tickets/Travel
Autos
Careers & Jobs
City Guides
Dating & Personals
Election 2008
Games
Green Living
Health & Fitness
Horoscopes
Lifestyle
Maps & Directions
Money
Movies
Music
News
Real Estate/Rentals
Shopping
Spaces
Sports
Tech & Gadgets
TV
Weather
White Pages
Yellow Pages
encarta
®
Home
Encyclopedia
Dictionary
Atlas
K-12 Success
College & Grad School
Adult Learning
Quizzes
More
Additional Reference Materials
Thesaurus
Translations
Multimedia
Other Resources
Education Resources
Math Help
Foreign Language Help
Project Planner
Scholarships & Financial Aid
Jobs & Internships
Online Degrees
Coffee Break
Ask Bill Nye the Science Guy
Top 10 Lists
Columns
On This Day
Encarta Products
Help
Go to article
Further Reading
from
Encarta
Further Reading offers additional information about your topics.
Logarithm
•
Coffee break: Recharge your brain
Mathematics
Ascher, Marcia.
Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas.
Brooks/Cole, Reprint, Chapman & Hall, 1991. 1994. Features mathematical ideas from cultures around the world.
Bell, E. T.
Men of Mathematics.
Simon & Schuster, Reprint, Touchstone, 1961. 1986. Classic work emphasizes the personalities of famous mathematicians.
Boyer, Carl B.
A History of Mathematics.
Wiley, 1991. Classic survey.
Courant, Richard, and Herbert Robbins.
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods.
2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1996. Clear and engaging introduction to mathematics.
Derbyshire, John.
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann & the Greatest Unsolved Problem.
Joseph Henry Press, 2003. Biography of Riemann alternating with a step-by-step explanation of his mathematical assertion.
Devlin, Keith.
The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Problems of Our Time.
Basic Books, 2002. Anyone who solves one of these problems is eligible for a million-dollar prize.
Dunham, William.
Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics.
Penguin, 1990, 1991. Informative and lively exploration of the ideas that have shaped mathematical research.
Eves, Howard.
An Introduction to the History of Mathematics.
Saunders, 1990. College text; good history of elementary mathematics.
Grinstein, Louise M.
Ed. Paul Campbell.
Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook.
Greenwood, 1987. Biographical sketches of 43 female mathematicians.
Gullberg, Jan.
Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers
Norton, 1997. An entertaining tour of mathematics.
Hogben, Lancelot.
Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers.
Norton, 1968, 1993. Popular classic illustrating historic and social aspects of mathematics.
Peterson, Ivars.
The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics.
Freeman, 1988, 1998. Well-illustrated, easily understandable mathematical examples from academic and daily life.
Schwartz, David, and Marissa Moss.
G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book.
Tricycle, 1998. Uses the alphabet to introduce mathematical terms, from
abacus
to
zillion
. For younger readers.
Smith, Karl J.
The Nature of Mathematics.
Brooks/Cole, 1998. Easygoing text for nonscientists.
Search for more books about
Logarithm
back to top
MSN Privacy
Legal
Advertise
Newsletter
Worldwide
Feedback
Help
© 2008 Microsoft
Hotmail
Messenger
My MSN
MSN Directory
back to top
