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1	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 4.29 avg rating — 52,070 ratings score: 1,293, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms by Donald Ervin Knuth 4.38 avg rating — 1,885 ratings score: 777, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Euclid's Elements by Euclid 4.32 avg rating — 3,349 ratings score: 727, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science by Ronald Graham 4.34 avg rating — 1,861 ratings score: 696, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert 4.52 avg rating — 106 ratings score: 640, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos 4.29 avg rating — 877 ratings score: 604, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Gravitation by Charles W. Misner 4.37 avg rating — 1,454 ratings score: 587, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Introduction To Commutative Algebra (Addison-Wesley Series in Mathematics) by Michael Francis Atiyah 4.41 avg rating — 135 ratings score: 537, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant 4.25 avg rating — 2,018 ratings score: 516, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Topology by James R. Munkres 4.30 avg rating — 1,224 ratings score: 510, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms by Donald Ervin Knuth 4.43 avg rating — 523 ratings score: 496, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by G.H. Hardy 4.34 avg rating — 208 ratings score: 472, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching by Donald Ervin Knuth 4.42 avg rating — 511 ratings score: 469, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Principles of Mathematical Analysis (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics) by Walter Rudin 4.27 avg rating — 1,882 ratings score: 458, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Introduction to Metamathematics by Stephen Cole Kleene 4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 422, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos 4.29 avg rating — 877 ratings score: 415, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Naive Set Theory by Paul R. Halmos 4.23 avg rating — 617 ratings score: 400, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham 4.22 avg rating — 2,950 ratings score: 398, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoît B. Mandelbrot 4.23 avg rating — 1,281 ratings score: 388, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon 4.38 avg rating — 682 ratings score: 383, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging (The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library, Series Number 4) by Martin Gardner 4.33 avg rating — 129 ratings score: 374, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Pólya 4.13 avg rating — 5,096 ratings score: 365, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Rational Points on Elliptic Curves by Joseph H. Silverman 4.40 avg rating — 60 ratings score: 354, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Calculus, Volume 1: One-Variable Calculus with an Introduction to Linear Algebra by Tom M. Apostol 4.28 avg rating — 469 ratings score: 353, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Tilings and Patterns by Branko Grünbaum 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 329, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	A Course in Arithmetic (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 7) (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 7) by Jean-Pierre Serre 4.40 avg rating — 47 ratings score: 324, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	A Course of Modern Analysis by Edmund Taylor Whittaker 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 324, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 97) by Neal Koblitz 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 308, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Trigonometric Series by Antoni Zygmund 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 306, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series) by Elwyn R. Berlekamp 4.32 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 306, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Algebra by Michael Artin 4.11 avg rating — 298 ratings score: 305, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	A History of Chinese Mathematics by S.S. Wilson (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 305, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Introduction to Analytic Number Theory by Tom M. Apostol 4.31 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 290, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 84) by Kenneth F. Ireland 4.44 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 289, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Geometry Revisited by H.S.M. Coxeter 4.57 avg rating — 102 ratings score: 288, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Field Theory and its Classical Problems (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks, Series Number 19) by Charles R. Hadlock 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 283, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook by Annette Imhausen (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 282, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Introduction to Geometry by H.S.M. Coxeter 4.29 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 276, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Topics in Algebra by I.N. Herstein 4.17 avg rating — 189 ratings score: 269, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint (Carus Mathematical Monographs, Series Number 23) by Steven G. Krantz 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 266, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields (Applied Mathematical Sciences, 42) by John Guckenheimer 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 265, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Calculus, Volume 2: Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra, with Applications to Differential Equations and Probability by Tom M. Apostol 4.27 avg rating — 299 ratings score: 262, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery, 2nd Edition by George E.P. Box 4.39 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 262, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 17) by James Dickson Murray 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings score: 256, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	An Introduction to the Theory of Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 148) by Joseph J. Rotman 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 253, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Calculus on Manifolds: A Modern Approach to Classical Theorems of Advanced Calculus by Michael Spivak 4.21 avg rating — 363 ratings score: 250, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Mathematical Models in Biology (Classics in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 46) by Leah Edelstein-Keshet 4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 248, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Methods of Mathematical Physics: Volume 2, Differential Equations by Richard Courant 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 235, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam by J.L. Berggren really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 232, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Handbook of Mathematical Logic (Volume 90) (Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, Volume 90) by Jon Barwise (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 231, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Volume 49: Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 1 by Richard P. Stanley 4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 222, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	On the Shoulders of Giants: New Approaches to Numeracy by National Research Council really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 216, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940 by Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 215, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	A History of Mathematical Notations (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Florian Cajori 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 214, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Warren Weaver 4.09 avg rating — 74 ratings score: 214, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education by National Research Council 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 210, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Mathematical Population Genetics 1: Theoretical Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 27) by Warren J. Ewens 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 208, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) by Alan H. Schoenfeld (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 204, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Methods of Mathematical Physics: Volume 1 by Richard Courant 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 155, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Graphs & Digraphs by Gary Chartrand 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 147, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Problems and Theorems in Analysis II: Theory of Functions. Zeros. Polynomials. Determinants. Number Theory. Geometry by George Pólya 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 131, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Introduction to Applied Mathematics by Gilbert Strang 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings score: 121, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Commission on Standards F really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 116, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Mathematics, with Applications in Management and Economics (Irwin Series in Management and the Behavioral Sciences) by Earl K. Bowen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 109, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Foundations of Geometry by David Hilbert 4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars