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Biography and Memoir April 2024
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| Grief is For People by Sloane CrosleyNovelist and essayist Sloane Crosley's (Cult Classic) moving and darkly humorous latest chronicles how she navigated the grief of losing her best friend to suicide in 2019. Try this next: Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron. |
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| Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson TaffaIn her thought-provoking debut named a Most Anticipated Book by Elle, The New York Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, Deborah Jackson Taffa, a member of the Quechan (Yuma) and Laguna Pueblo, recounts her fraught coming of age in the 1980s as a "Native girl in a northwestern New Mexico town where cowboys still hated Indians." Try this next: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen. |
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April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
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Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
by Edward Frenkel
Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a painting, a poem, or a piece of music. And the process of creating new mathematics is just that, an artistic pursuit--a deeply personal experience, which requires passion, dedication, and love.
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Incompleteness : the proof and paradox of Kurt Gèodel
by Rebecca Goldstein
A portrait of the eminent twentieth-century mathematician discusses his groundbreaking theorem of incompleteness, contributions within the famous Vienna circle, relationships with such contemporaries as Albert Einstein, and untimely death as a result of mental instability and self-starvation.
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Simon : the genius in my basement
by Alexander Masters
Simon Norton won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad at the age of 15 and again at 16 and was said to be the greatest English mathematician since Sir Isaac Newton. And yet, with such promise, Norton always flirted with a darker life. In this searing biography/memoir of him, Alexander Masters reveals just what happened to Norton to make him eschew regular math for a paranoid and difficult life obsessively spent taking bus rides all over England as he fixated on The Monster, a set of numbers so vast that its discovery was hailed as 'one of the most spectacular and mysterious achievements of the last fifty years.'
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Mind and matter : a life in math and football
by John Urschel
For John Urschel, what began as an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child quickly evolved into mastery of the elegant systems and rules of mathematics. By the time he was thirteen, he was auditing college-level calculus courses. But when he joined his high school football team, a new interest began to eclipse the thrill he once felt in the classroom. Urschel refused to sacrifice one passion for another: he simultaneously pursued his bachelor's and then master's degrees in mathematics, and later found a way to manage his double life as a PhD scholar at MIT and a professional football player.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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New Hanover County Library 201 Chestnut Street, Wilmington, North Carolina 28401 910-798-6301www.nhclibrary.org |
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