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Mathematician Books
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A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mathematician)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,756 ratings — published 1940
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mathematician)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,930 ratings — published 1991
Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematician)
avg rating 4.08 — 159 ratings — published
Adventures of a Mathematician (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematician)
avg rating 4.09 — 475 ratings — published 1976
A Beautiful Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematician)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,127 ratings — published 1998
How to Kiss Your Best Friend (Hawthorne Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,063 ratings — published 2022
When Women Were Dragons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.81 — 72,213 ratings — published 2022
The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner – Exploring Mathematics: History, Philosophy, and Personalities for Lay Readers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.05 — 681 ratings — published 1980
How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.83 — 112 ratings — published 2007
Understanding Pure Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.12 — 93 ratings — published 1995
Linear Algebra and Learning from Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.38 — 45 ratings — published
Advanced Calculus: An Introduction to Analysis, Global Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1994
Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.09 — 162 ratings — published 2002
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,036 ratings — published 1998
Prime Mystery: the Life and Mathematics of Sophie Germain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 2015
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,478 ratings — published 1995
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,477 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,651 ratings — published 1979
The Grumpy Billionaire (Billionaires of Manhattan, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,909 ratings — published 2023
Deflected (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published
Shannon's Gamble (Nick Shannon #7)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.39 — 181 ratings — published
Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 1978
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,262 ratings — published 2021
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,018 ratings — published
Higher Engineering Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.90 — 175 ratings — published 2006
McGraw-Hill My Math Grade 2 Volume 2 Teacher Edition, CCSS Common Core State Standards Edition (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.11 — 755 ratings — published 2021
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,446 ratings — published 2019
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,909 ratings — published 2016
Principia Mathematica, Vol 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.26 — 127 ratings — published 1910
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,103 ratings — published 2011
On God and Religion (Great Books in Philosophy)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.08 — 386 ratings — published 1986
ट्वेल्थ फेल | Twelfth Fail | 12th Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,971 ratings — published
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,888 ratings — published 2001
Out in the Offense (Out in College, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,570 ratings — published 2019
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.16 — 624,851 ratings — published 2012
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,450 ratings — published 2009
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,445 ratings — published 2018
A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.83 — 658 ratings — published
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,202 ratings — published 2009
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,397 ratings — published 2014
Proofs from the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.40 — 867 ratings — published 1998
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,232 ratings — published 2001
To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.80 — 209 ratings — published 1986
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.93 — 84 ratings — published 2007
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,181 ratings — published 1993
Mathematical Methods of Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 1945
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 4.13 — 516 ratings — published 1980
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematician)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,374 ratings — published 2012
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and
outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of
complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And
that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.
The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of
complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And
that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.
The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
“Of course, being a mathematician, I'm always looking for ways to avoid tedious mundane labor. Especially if it means I get to do a bunch of interesting abstract thinking. That's kind of the whole math thing: working hard to find ways to get out of working hard. If you are really, really lazy, and also happen to be really, really clever, then math just might be the life for you (assuming you also have no interest in wealth, fame, or popularity).”
― Arithmetic
― Arithmetic
