Book Reviews
- Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler: Proofs from THE BOOK**
- mathematical results that are beautiful, accessible, and profound
- Avner Ash, Robert Gross: Fearless Symmetry
Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers
- Martin Baxter, Andrew Rennie: Financial Calculus
An Introduction to Derivative Pricing
- Fan Chung, Ron Graham: Erdös on Graphs
His Legacy of Unsolved Problems
- William S. Cleveland: The Elements of Graphing Data
- effective graphical presentation of data
- Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes: Celestial Encounters
The Origins of Chaos and Stability
- Ivar Ekeland: The Broken Dice
And Other Mathematical Tales of Chance
- Gary William Flake: The Computational Beauty of Nature**
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
- Stephen H. Kellert: In the Wake of Chaos*
- what chaos theory is, and what it is not
- Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming**
Fundamental Algorithms; Seminumerical Algorithms; Sorting and Searching
- Rafail Krichevsky: Universal Compression and Retrieval
- Nancy A. Lynch: Distributed Algorithms**
- for a deep understanding of formal methods
- Flavio M. Menezes, Paulo K. Monteiro: An Introduction to Auction Theory
- mathematically rigorous techniques and methods
- Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman: Gödel's Proof*
- a readable popular explanation of the Incompleteness Theorem
- Piergiorgio Odifreddi: The Mathematical Century*
The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
- Burkard Polster: Q.E.D.
Beauty in Mathematical Proof
- Siobhan Roberts: King of Infinite Space
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
- Stéphane Robin, et al.: DNA, Words and Models
Statistics of Exceptional Words
- Bruce Schechter: My Brain Is Open*
The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös
- Annemarie Schimmel: The Mystery of Numbers
- an unstructured collection of numerological beliefs
- Philibert Schogt: The Wild Numbers
- a novel about a mathematician
- Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky: Fearful Symmetry
Is God a Geometer?
- Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information**
- the classic work on statistical graphics
- Leonard M. Wapner: The Pea and the Sun*
- a popular presentation of the Banach-Tarski Theorem
See also:
computer science