Julian Havil is the author of
John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy;
The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can”t Count On;
Impossible? Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums;
Nonplussed! Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas; and
Gamma: Exploring Euler”s Constant (all Princeton). He is a retired former master at Winchester College, England, where he taught mathematics for more than three decades.
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Julian Havil: Curves for the Mathematically Curious
Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today’s most important math writers Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by …
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Julian Havil: Impossible?
In Nonplussed!, popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible?, another marvelous med …
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Julian Havil: Gamma
Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, π, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is y, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a prof …
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Julian Havil: Nonplussed!
Math—the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions—usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes—conclusions that seem completely unreasonabl …
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Julian Havil: John Napier
The most comprehensive account of the mathematician’s life and work John Napier (1550–1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms—an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon …
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Julian Havil: Verblüfft?!
Das Buch stellt eine Reihe scheinbar paradoxer mathematischer Aussagen und deren Beweise vor. Sie kommen aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Mathematik, darunter das Geburtstagsparadoxon, Conways Chequer …
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Julian Havil: The Irrationals
An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that irr …
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