The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most ...
 A Difficult Mathematical Concept Revealed: As a non-mathematician I appreciate any help I can get in understanding the more esoteric parts of math. The Golden Ratio is just such a concept. Fortunately, Mario Livio has shown much light on this remarkable [... more]
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Why Do Buses Come in Threes: The Hidden Mathematics of ...
From Amazon.com: If you've ever bought a Lotto ticket and wondered about your bad luck afterward, you've had to deal with math. From timing to probability, it pervades our every waking moment, and even the most crippling math phobia can't make it go away. [... more]
CDN$18.99
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L.D. 50 : Mudvayne
buy this! good deal: my favourite songs in ld 50 are: "internal primates forever", "-1", "death blooms", and "under my skin". maybe also "dig", its pretty crazy. Here's a song-by-song review: 1. Monolith - [... more]
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The Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The ...
A fascinating trip through symbolic math: Who knew that our universe is such a spectacularly ordered place? Michael Schneider takes us on a fantastic voyage through the primary numbers one through ten, and shows us how numbers and geometry have helped [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Egyptian Harmony: Visual Music
Sacred Geometry made clear: It is becoming more and more obvious - all the laws of nature and creation were known to the ancient Egyptians, and it is manifested in their monuments, texts, traditions, language, art, etc. Gadalla uses purely Egyptian [... more]
CDN$11.99
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The Divine Proportion
Mathematical error and misleading conclusion on page 99.: For the most part an excellent, easy to follow work. However, on page 99 (item #3, bottom of page) the author states the incorrect equality: 2(phi+1+1/phi)=4, for the surface area of the golden [... more]
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The Techniques of Astral Combat: An Analysis of the ...
The Title was the best part of this book!!!: Contains a lot of bad information. Highly cynical and very negative -- AND IT DOES NOT DISCLOSE HARDLY ANY METHODS OF ASTRAL COMBAT!!! If you want to learn the real deal, check \oelsewhere\c... OK, Guy's this [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Two Millennia of Mathematics: From Archimedes to Gauss
Math motivated by history: You might think this is a history of math book but it isn't, it's a math book where the 5 topics are subjects the author likes and he motivates the math via some history. You can "look inside" to see the topics, but [... more]
CDN$70.99
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Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures ...
Readable applied math.: This is a fine compendium of math applied to a variety of real world problems. The only thing that bothers me is, where are the problems for the reader to try on his own?! I mean, a lot of people who are going to read this type of [... more]
CDN$27.04
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Sacred Geometry
Looks nice, but the content is weak: This is a very attractive-looking book, and I am very happy if it can make some people more appreciative about mathematicas. But if you are looking for correct info about mathematics or its role in art and culture, [... more]
CDN$11.00
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A Mathematical Mosaic: Patterns & Problem Solving
This book is wonderful for what it attempts: \o...\c This book does an incredibly admirable job of providing explanation of, and various methods of solving problems including, but not limited to, the irrationality of sqrt(2), the Fibbonacci Sequence and [... more]
CDN$17.01
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Golden Ratio & Fibonacci Numbers
It's the Beauty of Mathematics: Well, I have studied these numbers and other fascinating phenomena in mathematics, and I never found it enough. So, every book I read about this stuff I found a new set of new things, or at least a new view/review of the [... more]
CDN$40.50
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