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Established in 1992, A K Peters has grown into a respected publisher that provides a sustainable service to the scientific community by publishing high-quality material and optimizing distribution with reasonable pricing and responsible editing. They annually publish between 35 and 40 books and currently offer a catalog of more than 300 professional references and textbooks.

A K Peters is now part of CRC Press. Please note that when you browse and search for our products you will be directed to CRCPress.com. You will be able to find all of our quality publications plus the great titles that CRC Press publishes as well. This integration of websites provides you, our customer, with even more options to find the information and content you need. Learn More...

New & Upcoming Titles

Origami 5: Fifth International Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics, and Education
Train Your Brain: A Year's Worth of Puzzles
Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning
3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes
Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective
Displays: Fundamentals and Applications
Real-Time Shadows
Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11
 Game Development Tools
Origami Design Secrets, Second Edition
Crafting by Concepts: Fiber Arts and Mathematics
The Star and the Whole: Gian-Carlo Rota on Mathematics and Phenomenology
 

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Sites of Interest

    WEB2DNA Art Project
    WEB2DNA will take your website, analyze it, crunch it into little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation similar to a DNA fingerprint.

    Puzzles HQ
    Everything Puzzles, from 3d Puzzles to Zigsaw Puzzles.

    Andrew Fentem: Research Design Art Engineering
    This is Andrew Fentem's online exhibit of innovative high-specification prototype systems, what might be called "machine art," which incorporate pioneering research-based advances in the fields of multi-touch touchsceens, multi-object-tracking, kinetic surfaces, and RFID hardware.

    Cornell College Math Club
    View a photo gallery as the math club assembles a Menger Sponge, one of the many activities found in Project Origami.

    The Millennium Problems
    In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years.

    Hyperbolic Space Crochet Models
    In 1997 Cornell University mathematician Daina Taimina finally worked out how to make a physical model of hyperbolic space that allows us to feel, and to tactilely explore, the properties of this unique geometry. The method she used was crochet. Be sure to check out Making Mathematics with Needlework edited by sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel for other mathematically inspired needlework projects.

    wonderful tensegrity structures
    Tensegrity structures are visually stunning and their combination with computer enhanced structures is creating renewed interest for architectural applications.

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