How to Win at Aptitude Tests
This practical guide for succeeding in aptitude tests, which are increasingly being used to test applicants for jobs and academic courses.
Mathematics
Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer
A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this ‘ground breaking biography’ Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac Newton and reveals a portrait of the scientist as the last sorcerer.
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
From the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too.