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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 750 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,491 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 731 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,401 ratings — published 1997
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 592 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.81 — 77,436 ratings — published 1884
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 497 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,158 ratings — published 1944
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 486 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,329 ratings — published 2014
A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,734 ratings — published 1940
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,769 ratings — published 2000
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 381 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,028 ratings — published 1998
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 368 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,832 ratings — published 2012
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,334 ratings — published 2019
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,022 ratings — published 1941
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,931 ratings — published 1999
Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,559 ratings — published 1958
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,959 ratings — published 1987
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,959 ratings — published 1990
The Music of the Primes (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,294 ratings — published 2003
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,662 ratings — published 2007
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,762 ratings — published 2003
Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,363 ratings — published -290
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,912 ratings — published 1991
Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 260 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,656 ratings — published 2010
Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,897 ratings — published 1964
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
by (shelved 257 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,846 ratings — published 2014
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,864 ratings — published 1988
How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.30 — 978 ratings — published 1994
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,168 ratings — published 2019
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,001 ratings — published 1954
Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 237 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,273 ratings — published 1995
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,625 ratings — published 2009
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,438 ratings — published 2009
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,441 ratings — published 2012
Calculus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,001 ratings — published 1967
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,255 ratings — published 2002
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,331 ratings — published 1988
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,498 ratings — published 1998
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,412 ratings — published 2008
Topology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,239 ratings — published 1974
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,179 ratings — published 1993
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
by (shelved 187 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,199 ratings — published 2009
A Beautiful Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,037 ratings — published 1998
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,373 ratings — published 2012
Calculus Made Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,260 ratings — published 1910
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,938 ratings — published 2013
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,910 ratings — published 2002
A History of π (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as mathematics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,858 ratings — published 1970
Men of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,080 ratings — published 1937
Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.29 — 885 ratings — published 1976
Proofs from the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.40 — 867 ratings — published 1998
A History of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,053 ratings — published 1968
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as mathematics)
avg rating 4.09 — 735 ratings — published 1967
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
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“[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]
Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;
He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how
We are working to completion, working on from then to now.
Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,
Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,
And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.
But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,
You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,
What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles;
What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.
You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,
But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate.
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
What, my boy, you are not weeping? You should save your eyes for sight;
You will need them, mine observer, yet for many another night.
I leave none but you, my pupil, unto whom my plans are known.
You 'have none but me,' you murmur, and I 'leave you quite alone'?
Well then, kiss me, -- since my mother left her blessing on my brow,
There has been a something wanting in my nature until now;
I can dimly comprehend it, -- that I might have been more kind,
Might have cherished you more wisely, as the one I leave behind.
I 'have never failed in kindness'? No, we lived too high for strife,--
Calmest coldness was the error which has crept into our life;
But your spirit is untainted, I can dedicate you still
To the service of our science: you will further it? you will!
There are certain calculations I should like to make with you,
To be sure that your deductions will be logical and true;
And remember, 'Patience, Patience,' is the watchword of a sage,
Not to-day nor yet to-morrow can complete a perfect age.
I have sown, like Tycho Brahe, that a greater man may reap;
But if none should do my reaping, 'twill disturb me in my sleep
So be careful and be faithful, though, like me, you leave no name;
See, my boy, that nothing turn you to the mere pursuit of fame.
I must say Good-bye, my pupil, for I cannot longer speak;
Draw the curtain back for Venus, ere my vision grows too weak:
It is strange the pearly planet should look red as fiery Mars,--
God will mercifully guide me on my way amongst the stars.”
― Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;
He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how
We are working to completion, working on from then to now.
Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,
Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,
And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.
But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,
You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,
What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles;
What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.
You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,
But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate.
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
What, my boy, you are not weeping? You should save your eyes for sight;
You will need them, mine observer, yet for many another night.
I leave none but you, my pupil, unto whom my plans are known.
You 'have none but me,' you murmur, and I 'leave you quite alone'?
Well then, kiss me, -- since my mother left her blessing on my brow,
There has been a something wanting in my nature until now;
I can dimly comprehend it, -- that I might have been more kind,
Might have cherished you more wisely, as the one I leave behind.
I 'have never failed in kindness'? No, we lived too high for strife,--
Calmest coldness was the error which has crept into our life;
But your spirit is untainted, I can dedicate you still
To the service of our science: you will further it? you will!
There are certain calculations I should like to make with you,
To be sure that your deductions will be logical and true;
And remember, 'Patience, Patience,' is the watchword of a sage,
Not to-day nor yet to-morrow can complete a perfect age.
I have sown, like Tycho Brahe, that a greater man may reap;
But if none should do my reaping, 'twill disturb me in my sleep
So be careful and be faithful, though, like me, you leave no name;
See, my boy, that nothing turn you to the mere pursuit of fame.
I must say Good-bye, my pupil, for I cannot longer speak;
Draw the curtain back for Venus, ere my vision grows too weak:
It is strange the pearly planet should look red as fiery Mars,--
God will mercifully guide me on my way amongst the stars.”
― Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
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