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Review: The Music of Pythagoras by Kitty Ferguson

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How to create an extreme overhang with toy bricks

Life

How to create an extreme overhang with toy bricks

Features

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Three-square

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The Poincaré Conjecture by Donal O'Shea

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Physics

A Beautiful Math: John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature, by Tom Siegfried

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Let Einstein help you board your plane

Physics

Let Einstein help you board your plane

Features

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Equal this

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Physics

Infinite Ascent: A short history of mathematics by David Berlinski

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Physics

Coincidences, Chaos and All That Math Jazz by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird

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Physics

Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The quest to find the hidden law of numbers by Dan Rockmore

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Mind-boggling feats

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Sophisticated circles

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