Letters to a Young Mathematician
by Ian Stewart | 
How to Cut a Cake
by Ian Stewart | 
Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries
by Ian Stewart | 
The Mathematics of Life
by Ian Stewart | 
Sphereland
by Dionys Burger | 
The Planiverse
by A. K. Dewdney | 
The Man Who Counted
by Malba Tahan | 
Mathematical Mysteries
by Calvin C. Clawson | 
The Number Devil
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger | 
The Math Gene
by Keith Devlin | 
The Poincare Conjecture
by Donal O'Shea |
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoit Mandelbrot | 
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson | 
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Einstein and the Quantum
by A. Douglas Stone | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant |
first there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls ''a superb sequel.'' Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatter land explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who tempts her away from her home and family in Flatland and becomes her guide and mentor through ten dimensions. In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.