The Mathematics Of Change

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers,...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon...

Every year, millions of high school and college students walk into their first geometry class thinking: "Circles and squares. How tough can it be?"...

Required study by high schools and colleges, algebra has been a notorious stumbling block for students. Without a solid foundation in algebra,...

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

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This edition includes topics such as exponential functions, common log or base 10, rules of exponents, natural log or base e, applications of...

In the Parque del Retiro, in Madrid, Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna weaves a humorous and absurd monologue about a monocle...

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He...

A musical fantasia based on the true encounter between mathematician Andrew Wiles and Fermat's last theorem.

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