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Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as maths)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,297 ratings — published 1997
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as maths)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,991 ratings — published 2014
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as maths)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,135 ratings — published 1979
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as maths)
avg rating 3.81 — 80,618 ratings — published 1884
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 115 times as maths)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,340 ratings — published 1944
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as maths)
avg rating 4.09 — 23,651 ratings — published 2019
Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 110 times as maths)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,772 ratings — published 2010
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as maths)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,150 ratings — published 2012
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as maths)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,744 ratings — published 2019
A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as maths)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,039 ratings — published 1940
The Music of the Primes (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as maths)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,422 ratings — published 2003
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as maths)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,045 ratings — published 1941
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as maths)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,216 ratings — published 1998
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as maths)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,065 ratings — published 2000
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as maths)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,667 ratings — published 1999
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as maths)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,003 ratings — published 1990
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as maths)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,820 ratings — published 2003
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
by (shelved 68 times as maths)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,557 ratings — published 2014
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as maths)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,483 ratings — published 2014
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as maths)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,668 ratings — published 2007
Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 62 times as maths)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,349 ratings — published 1995
Calculus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as maths)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,042 ratings — published 1967
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as maths)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,680 ratings — published 1954
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as maths)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,881 ratings — published 1988
How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as maths)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,027 ratings — published 1994
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as maths)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,088 ratings — published 2016
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as maths)
avg rating 3.90 — 6,646 ratings — published 2013
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as maths)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,429 ratings — published 2012
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as maths)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,728 ratings — published 2012
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as maths)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,034 ratings — published 2008
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as maths)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,955 ratings — published 2002
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as maths)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,088 ratings — published 1991
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as maths)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,202 ratings — published 1993
Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as maths)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,668 ratings — published 1958
Proofs from the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as maths)
avg rating 4.40 — 875 ratings — published 1998
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as maths)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,511 ratings — published 1998
Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as maths)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,939 ratings — published 1964
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as maths)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,005 ratings — published 2019
Calculus Made Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as maths)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,307 ratings — published 1910
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as maths)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,402 ratings — published 1987
A History of π (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as maths)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,885 ratings — published 1970
Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as maths)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,307 ratings — published 1993
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as maths)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,610 ratings — published 2009
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
by (shelved 43 times as maths)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,228 ratings — published 2009
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as maths)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,044 ratings — published 2013
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as maths)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,039 ratings — published 2009
Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as maths)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,418 ratings — published -290
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as maths)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,420 ratings — published 1988
Letters to a Young Mathematician (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as maths)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,888 ratings — published 2006
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as maths)
avg rating 3.97 — 53,175 ratings — published 2012
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a number called the "googol," which is good and large and which was promptly taken up by writers of books and articles on popular mathematics.
Personally, I think it is an awful name, but the young child of one of the authors invented it, and what could a proud father do? Thus, we are afflicted forever with that baby-talk number.”
― Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science
Personally, I think it is an awful name, but the young child of one of the authors invented it, and what could a proud father do? Thus, we are afflicted forever with that baby-talk number.”
― Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science
“Discover patterns. Master the board.”
― Chess Grid Mathematics: Power Zones & Piece Mastery Workbook
― Chess Grid Mathematics: Power Zones & Piece Mastery Workbook
