While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier - and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge - including religion. Together, the two men discover the power - and the fallibility - of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry. As grandfather and grandson struggle with the question of whether there can ever be absolute certainty in mathematics or life, they are forced to reconsider their fundamental beliefs and choices. Their stories hinge on their explorations of parallel developments in the study of geometry and infinity - and the mathematics throughout is as rigorous and fascinating as the narrative and characters are compelling and complex. Moving and enlightening, "A Certain Ambiguity" is a story about what it means to face the extent - and the limits - of human knowledge.

名探偵シャーロック・ホームズが、数学の知識を駆使して難事件を解決する事件帖三作。「バナッハタルスキの定理」との格闘は圧巻。

さまざまなバックグラウンドを持つ個性豊かな入門生たちがロジックの理解を目指す物語。いよいよ最終日の演習が始まろうとしたとき、衝撃の出来事が...。『数学セミナー』好評連載、待望の書籍化!!

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心ときめく数学の世界をあなたに。
『プログラマの数学』の結城浩が贈る、魅惑の数学物語。美少女ミルカさん、元気少女テトラちゃん、それに僕。三人の高校生が数学にチャレンジ。数学を楽しみ、学ぶことについて考え、異性へほのかな思いに心を動かす……。オイラー生誕300年記念出版。
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2002年から結城浩のWebで公開されてきた「数学ガール」。読者からの熱いエールが本書の企画を動かしました。本書は、三人の高校生が数学の問題に挑戦する物語。題材は「素数」「絶対値」という基本的なものから「フィボナッチ数列」「二項定理」、「無限級数」や「テイラー展開」、「母関数」まで多岐にわたっています。
読み物形式でありながら、取り扱う数学的内容は本格的。数学クイズが好きな一般の方から、理系の大学生、社会人まで幅広い読者に楽しんでもらえる数学物語です。数式が苦手でも大丈夫。登場する高校生自身も数式で悩み、ああでもない、こうでもないと読者と思いを共有します。数式が追えなくても「旅の地図」と称した概念図で読者さんの理解を助けます。
《数学は、時を越える》をテーマにおいた本書は、本格的な数学の奥深いおもしろみをすべての読者に提供するでしょう。

A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" ("Time Out"), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness is recounted by the unnamed narrator in increasingly urgent and disjointed prose, as he loses his grip on reality.

《外教社走近经典日语阅读系列:芥川龙之介作品选》内容简介：日本民族有着悠久的文学传统，是世界文化花园中的瑰丽奇葩，从古典名著《源氏物语》到当代诺贝尔文学奖的获奖作，源远流长、群星灿烂的日本文学曾对包括中国在内的世界各国的文学产生过不同程度的影响。通过日本文学，我们可以学人生、习教养、长知识、阔眼界。在思想意识、人生理想、处世方法、道德观念、行为准则、文化风俗等各方面，包括日本文学在内的外国文学曾经影响过几代人，今后，还必将在更大的范围和程度上影响年轻的一代。在世界加快走向全球化、各国经济文化交往日益频繁的今天，读者通过日本文学这扇窗，更多地了解日本文化，借鉴邻国的经验与精华，实在很有必要。如同哲学、历史、美学、心理学、伦理学等学科一样，外国文学是一门“致知”的学问，它可以陶冶情趣，提高素养，开阔视野，丰富精神文化生活，培养人的洞察力、推理力、判断力和恩辨分析能力，提高人的整体素质。日本文学连同世界各国的文学在广泛涉猎、表达悟识和再现生活方面具有不可替代的价值，它是一处蕴含丰富的精神矿藏，值得我们一代又一代地去开发。
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Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli , they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for - and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.
Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to The Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.
Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations - and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.

再舉高一點，踩在艱難現實泥濘的你，
必須把夢想高舉過頭啊！
獻給成年後走迷方向、渴望受觸動的靈魂
──追夢騎士唐吉訶德，永遠在等你！
一起看電影，一起哭一起笑，
一起相信夢想而活得閃閃發光，
只因為──
「那時的我們，都是主角。」
懷抱電影夢的小率灰頭土臉地返鄉，本以為只是個人生的逗點，沒想到世界像拋棄她自行高速運轉著，她則成了無人聞問的句點。在老家巷弄閒晃的她看到曾經熟悉的「唐吉訶德錄影帶店」，想到曾經一起看電影、讀雜書的夥伴：奉行追夢騎士唐吉訶德精神的唐吉叔和「拉曼查小隊」，全都不知人在何方，只留下往日時光的痕跡仍在那個灰暗地下室。
隨著心頭的悸動，隨著意外撞見唐吉叔的兒子，許多久遠回憶湧上心頭，一股衝動讓她答應幫忙找出失蹤的唐吉叔。但當更多錄影帶店物品出土，那段最閃耀的日子，那些激發夢想的物品，都成了創作的力量，讓她決心開啟YouTube節目，靠著「唐吉訶德錄影帶頻道」召喚四方力量，找出引她追夢的唐吉叔。
然而，小率再次遇見夥伴，一起冒險；再次不顧打擊，與世界衝撞，一支支「尋找唐吉訶德」的影片收看數節節升高，宛如受到祝福的時候，她與夥伴們更憂心的是，真有找到唐吉叔的那一刻？或者，就跟夢想一樣，只是個永遠追尋不到的目標？
韓國大田舊市區等著都更的老宅地下室，
「唐吉訶德錄影帶店」再度開啟新生命！