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How Math Explains the World by James D. Stein

How Math Explains the World : A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics by James D. Stein

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date: 04/22/2008
ISBN-13: 9780061241765

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