The Top 12 Books About Mathematics

  1. The Mathematics of Gambling – Edward O. Thorp
  2. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity – Steven Strogatz
  3. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number – Mario Livio
  4. Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem – Simon Singh
  5. Prisoner’s Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb – William Poundstone
  6. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data – David Spiegelhalter
  7. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea – Charles Seife
  8. A History of Pi -Petr Beckmann
  9. Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics from the First Numbers to Chaos Theory – Ian Stewart
  10. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth – Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
  11. Gödel’s Proof – Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman
  12. Introduction to Algorithms – Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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