Math History

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    • Complete Series
    • By: Marcus du Sautoy
    • Narrated by: Marcus du Sautoy
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • This 10-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard....

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    • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 686 ratings
    • Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket....

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    • A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
    • By: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history.

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    • A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 497 ratings
    • In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, and insight....

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    • How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
    • By: Barbara Oakley PhD
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material....

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    • How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....

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    • By: Petr Beckmann
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress - and also when it did not....

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    • The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
    • By: Marcus Du Sautoy
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver - and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts....

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    • The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
    • By: Ian Stewart
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history....

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    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests....

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    • Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
    • By: JL Collins
    • Narrated by: JL Collins, Peter Adeney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,358 ratings
    • Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical....

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    • How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
    • By: Scott Patterson
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,262 ratings
    • In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT....

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    • Science & Math
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Todd MacDonald
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Learn about the science and history of volcanoes with iMindsJNR audio-learning series for younger minds....

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    • The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Charles Seife
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics....

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    • How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Laura Jennings
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 998 ratings
    • A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....

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    • A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
    • By: Violet Moller
    • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance - an exciting debut history....

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    • The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
    • By: Sarah Hart
    • Narrated by: Sarah Hart
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Once Upon a Prime explores the many ways mathematics can transform our understanding of literature and vice versa, by the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair....

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    • How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
    • By: Graham Farmelo
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them....

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