Book Reviews
- Jennifer Beineke, Jason Rosenhouse: The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects
Research in Recreational Math
- Gregory Chaitin: Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega
- complexity and the limits of mathematics
- John Derbyshire: Prime Obsession
Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
- Apostolos Doxiadis: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture*
- a novel of obsession and mathematics
- Ivar Ekeland: The Broken Dice
And Other Mathematical Tales of Chance
- Kenneth Falconer: Fractals: A Very Short Introduction
- the obvious starting point for lay readers
- Lynn Gamwell: Mathematics and Art
A Cultural History
- Tom Garry: Mastery in Primary Mathematics
- a mastery approach to teaching mathematics teaching
- Julian Havil: Gamma
Exploring Euler's Constant
- Hans Lauwerier: Fractals
Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures
- Paul Lockhart: Arithmetic**
- a deep look at elementary mathematics
- Eli Maor, Eugen Jost: Beautiful Geometry
- art illustrating classical results
- Eli Maor: Music by the Numbers
From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
- Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman: Gödel's Proof*
- a readable popular explanation of the Incompleteness Theorem
- Robert Newell: Mastery Mathematics for Primary Teachers
- Joseph O'Rourke: How To Fold It*
The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra
- Piergiorgio Odifreddi: The Mathematical Century*
The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
- Stephen Ornes: Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations
- the maths behind some contemporary art + artists
- Burkard Polster: Q.E.D.
Beauty in Mathematical Proof
- David Reimer: Count Like An Egyptian
A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
- David S. Richeson: Euler's Gem*
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
- Siobhan Roberts: King of Infinite Space
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
- 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?
- John Stillwell: Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel
- "elementary" and its boundary with "advanced"
- Leonard M. Wapner: The Pea and the Sun*
- a popular presentation of the Banach-Tarski Theorem
- Jeffrey R. Weeks: The Shape of Space*
- the geometry and topology of surfaces and three-manifolds
- Hermann Weyl: Symmetry
- group theory, art, architecture, biology
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