《神秘的阿列夫:数学、犹太神秘主义教派以及对无穷的探寻》主要内容：19世纪末，一位杰出的数学家在一所精神病院里身心逐渐衰弱而死去。他一系列先进观点造成的最伟大的成就，是他对无穷的特性的超前理解。这就是乔治·康托(GeorgCantor)的故事：他如何得到他的理论，他的改变了世界面貌的研究成果对后代产生了怎样深远的影响。 康托充满智慧的、深奥哲学观点的研究工作，有古希腊数学和在喀巴拉——中世纪犹太神秘主义教派里的源头。康托用阿列夫aleph——希姆莱字母表中的、伴有非同寻常联想的第一个字母——这个神秘数字来表示所有正整数的集合。它不是最大的数，因为——不存在最大的数，但它是一个总能趋近的终极数：恰如数字1之前不存在最后的分数。

斯蒂芬·斯梅尔是美国著名数学家，美国科学院院士和美国艺术与科学院院士。所获奖项有1966年菲尔兹奖、1996年美国国家科学奖章和2007年沃尔夫数学奖(迄今为止只有12位数学家同时获得菲尔兹奖和沃尔夫数学奖)。他是一位有着独特人生经历的当代数学大师，在数学的许多领域中做出了卓越成就，例如首先证明将球体从内向外翻转在理论上是可能的，提出了混沌概念的先声——斯梅尔马蹄等等。斯梅尔首先突破了维数障碍，在高维庞加莱猜想上取得重大进展，证明一个六维的世界有可能比一个三维世界更为简单。然后转向研究动力系统，作出重要成就，还勾划出研究计划，给很多研究者实行。他也做过数学经济的工作，近期也探究了不同的计算理论。不仅如此，斯梅尔还是一名发起了旨在终结越南战争的反战运动的孤胆骑侠，并与美国的科学管理机构进行过维护学术自由的不懈斗争。他有丰富的业余爱好，不但被公认为顶级的矿石收藏家，而且还热衷于摄影、航海、登山。为表彰他的贡献，一颗1982年发现的小行星于2000年便以他来命名。《突破维数障碍(斯梅尔传)》由一位十分熟悉他的数学家撰写，不但以极其通俗的语言，介绍了斯梅尔数学成就的迷人之处，更令我们看到了一个特立独行、勇于追求、执着探索的数学家形象。 《突破维数障碍(斯梅尔传)》的作者是史蒂夫·巴特森。

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world. Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and erratic physical phenomena. In The Fractalist, Mandelbrot recounts the high points of his life with exuberance and an eloquent fluency, deepening our understanding of the evolution of his extraordinary mind. We begin with his early years: born in Warsaw in 1924 to a Lithuanian Jewish family, Mandelbrot moved with his family to Paris in the 1930s, where he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle. During World War II, as he stayed barely one step ahead of the Nazis until France was liberated, he studied geometry on his own and dreamed of using it to solve fresh, real-world problems. We observe his unusually broad education in Europe, and later at Caltech, Princeton, and MIT. We learn about his thirty-five-year affiliation with IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center and his association with Harvard and Yale. An outsider to mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others had thought impossible: develop a new geometry that combines revelatory beauty with a radical way of unfolding formerly hidden laws governing utter roughness, turbulence, and chaos. Here is a remarkable story of both the man’s life and his unparalleled contributions to science, mathematics, and the arts.

In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, 'the Prince of Intuition,' tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, 'the Apostle of Proof'. In time, Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two and left behind a magical and inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its secrets today.

《数学与数学人》是一套国际化的科学普及丛书，我们将邀请当代一流的中外科学家谈他们的数学人生——研究经历和成功经验。活跃在研究前沿的数学家们将会用轻松的文笔，通俗地介绍数学各领域激动人心的最新进展、某些数学专题精彩曲折的发展历史以及数学在现代科学技术中的广泛应用。

本书是“汉译大众精品文库”的一种。G.H.哈代在《一个数学家的辩白》中，用最优雅的语言对数学的真谛进行了最完美的揭示；N.维纳在《数学与神童》中，以非专业的语言阐述了一位天才的智力发展过程和工作、生活方式；怀特海在《科学的起源》中阐述了现代科学的发展以及它对当代文明和生活的深刻影响。三位大师都以自己深刻的洞见为科学作了精辟的辩白，坚定了人类对科学的信心。

《费马大定理》由上海译文出版社出版。

《当代数学大师:沃尔夫数学奖得主及其建树与见解》以简练的文字，介绍了当代极负盛名的33位沃尔夫数学奖得主的简历、主要成就、治学态度和方法以及他们对数学研究、数学教育等方面的卓越见解。《当代数学大师:沃尔夫数学奖得主及其建树与见解》展现了当代数学发展的众多信息和特点。

众所周知，诺贝尔奖中未设数学奖，但在数学界有一项与诺贝尔奖同等声誉的国际数学大奖——菲尔兹奖。它在每四年举行一次的国际数学家大会上隆重颁发，获奖者都是年龄不超过40岁的数学精英。 本书介绍了自1936年菲尔兹奖开始颁发至今共43位获奖者的生平简历、重要建树及其对数学、数学研究或数学教育的精辟见解，展现了一幅幅数学发展的精彩画卷。21世纪的第一次国际数学家大会即将在北京召开，谨将此书献给2002北京国际数学家大会。

《一个数学家的辩白》选编了哈代的代表性论著《一个数学家的辩白》及其他一些短小精悍的文章与讲稿，其中《一个数学家的辩白》一文，内容涉及数学的本质与特点、数学的历史、数学的社会功能等，被称为是“用最优雅的语言对数学真谛进行的最完美的揭示”。

《陈省身文选:传记·通俗演讲及其它》收集了世界著名数学大师陈省身教授的文章40多篇，内容包括关于他的生平、事迹和学术生涯的传记，在国际数学家大会上的三次报告，以及其他的演讲等。这些文章反映了陈省身教授的成才之路、学术成就、科学和教育思想，以及炎黄子孙强烈的爱国主义精神。著名数学家吴文俊教授为《陈省身文选:传记·通俗演讲及其它》作序。 《陈省身文选:传记·通俗演讲及其它》对于我国的广大科学、教育工作者，特别是数学工作者，广大的青年学生，具有深刻的启迪和重要的参考价值。

这是一本关于成功励志的人生哲学书。它讲述了一对师生之间因对数学尤其微积分的热爱而延续了30年的友谊，淡而隽永。这也是个关于改变的故事，如同微积分本身一样。随着老师和学生年岁渐长，双双遭受到生命本身带来的打击，他们的地位开始互换，两人的内心世界也开始蜕变。

An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Godel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein. But his most ambitious goal--to establish unshakable logical foundations of mathematics--continues to loom before him. Through love and hate, peace and war, Russell persists in the dogged mission that threatens to claim both his career and his personal happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity. This story is at the same time a historical novel and an accessible explication of some of the biggest ideas of mathematics and modern philosophy. With rich characterizations and expressive, atmospheric artwork, the book spins the pursuit of these ideas into a highly satisfying tale. Probing and ingeniously layered, the book throws light on Russell's inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he spent his life trying to answer. At its heart, "Logicomix "is a story about the conflict between an ideal rationality and the unchanging, flawed fabric of reality.Apostolos Doxiadis studied mathematics at Columbia University. His international bestseller "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" spearheaded the impressive entrance of mathematics into the world of storytelling. Apart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has also worked in film and theater and is an internationally recognized expert on the relationship of mathematics to narrative. Christos H. Papadimitriou is C . Lester Hogan professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was won numerous international awards for his pioneering work in computational complexity and algorithmic game theory. Christos is the author of the novel "Turing: A Novel about Computation." Alecos Papadatos worked for over twenty years in film animation in France and Greece. In 1997, he became a cartoonist for the major Athens daily "To Vima." He lives in Athens with his wife, Annie Di Donna, and their two children. Annie Di Donna studied graphic arts and painting in France and has worked as animator on many productions, among them "Babar" and "Tintin." Since 1991, she has been running an animation studio with her husband, Alecos Papadatos. This innovative graphic novel is based on the early life of the brilliant philosopher Bertrand Russell. Russell and his impassioned pursuit of truth. Haunted by family secrets and unable to quell his youthful curiosity, Russell became obsessed with a Promethean goal: to establish the logical foundation of all mathematics. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Godel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein. But the object of his defining quest continues to loom before him. Through love and hate, peace and war, Russell persists in the dogged mission that threatens to claim both his career and his personal happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity. "Logicomix" is at the same time a historical novel and an accessible explication to some of the biggest ideas of mathematics and modern philosophy. With rich characterizations and expressive, atmospheric artwork, the book spins the pursuit of these ideas into a captivating tale. Probing and ingeniously layered, the book throws light on Russell's inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he spent his life trying to answer. At its heart, "Logicomix" is a story about the conflict between an ideal rationality and the unchanging, flawed fabric of reality. "At the heart of Logicomix stands Sir Bertrand Russell, a man determined to find a way of arriving at absolutely right answers. It's a tale within a tale, as the two authors and two graphic artists ardently pursue their own search for truth and appear as characters in the book. As one of them assures us, this won't be 'your typical, usual comic book.' Their quest takes shape and revolves around a lecture given by Russell at an unnamed American university in 1939, a lecture that is really, as he himself tells us, the story of his life and of his pursuit of real logical truth. With Proustian ambition and exhilarating artwork, "Logicomix"'s search for truth encounters head-on the horrors of the Second World War and the agonizing question of whether war can ever be the right choice. Russell himself had to confront that question personally: he endured six months in jail for his pacifism. Russell was determined to find the perfect logical method for solving all problems and attempted to remold human nature in his experimental school at Beacon Hill. Despite repeated failures, Russell never stopped being 'a sad little boy desperately seeking ways out of the deadly vortex of uncertainty.' The book is a visual banquet chronicling Russell's lifelong pursuit of 'certainty in total rationality.' As Logic and Mathematics, the last bastions of certainty, fail him, and as Reason proves not absolute, Russell is forced to face the fact that there is no Royal Road to Truth. Authors Dosiadis and Papadimitriou perfectly echo Russell's passion, with a sincere, easily grasped text amplified with breathtaking visual richness, making this the most satisfying graphic novel of 2009, a titanic artistic achievement of more than 300 pages, all of it pure reading joy."--Nick DiMartino, "Shelf Awareness" "This is an extraordinary graphic novel, wildly ambitious in daring to put into words and drawings the life and thought of one of the great philosophers of the last century, Bertrand Russell. The book is a rare intellectual and artistic achievement, which will, I am sure, lead its readers to explore realms of knowledge they thought were forbi

《世界著名数学家传记(上下集)》是科学出版社出版。

《数学与数学人》是一套国际化的科学普及丛书，我们将邀请当代一流的中外科学家谈他们的数学人生——研究经历和成功经验。活跃在研究前沿的数学家们将会用轻松的文笔，通俗地介绍数学各领域激动人心的最新进展、某个数学专题精彩曲折的发展历史以及数学在现代科学技术中的广泛应用。本书辑录了丘成桐成长、求学历程，及他对几何学及科学发展的看法。

库尔特·哥德尔无疑是当代最伟大的思想家之一。王浩与晚年的哥德尔交往甚密，他在本书中首次广泛论述了哥德尔的生平与工作，充分揭示了哥德尔深奥精妙的思想及其与数学史和哲学史上的重要论题的关系。他所涉猎的主题包括初等逻辑的完全性，形式化的极限，证明问题，集合概念，数学哲学，时间理论，相对论，形而上学，宗教以及作为世界观的哲学。

《费马大定理:一个困惑了世间智者358年的谜》是关于一个困惑了世间智者358年的谜题的传奇。书中既有振奋人心的故事讲述方式，也有引人入胜的科学发现的历史。西蒙·辛格讲述了一个英国人，经过数年秘密辛苦的工作，终于解决了最具挑战性的数学问题的艰辛旅程。