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[[[>50 I'm interested in suggestions as to how to curate this, and make it easier for people to find a good suggestion for them. So ... how to arrange this? ]]] Here I want to collect a list of suggested reading for people interested in maths. Part of the problem is that there are books *about* maths, and books to *learn* maths, and books to *learn*about* maths, /etc./ You might want to look at Random Reading Suggestion, but to start, here are some books, in no particular order: | *Title* | *Author* | *Suggested*by* | *Comment* | | Numbers: rational and irrational | Ivan Niven | Adam Atkinson | | | 17 Equations the Changed the World | @JoatStewart _ (Ian Stewart) | | | | The Book of Numbers | John Horton Conway and Richard Guy | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Great Mathematical Problems | @JoatStewart _ (Ian Stewart) | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Theory That Would Not Die | Sharon Bertsch McGrayne | @IceColBeveridge | | | Fermat's Last Theorem | @SLSingh | @johng225 _ @ColinTheMathmo _ @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans | Charles H Kahn | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | A History of π | Petr Beckmann | | An Imaginary Tale | Paul Nahin | | Humble Pie | @StandUpMaths _ (Matt Parker) | @Heimdayl _ @ColinTheMathmo | | | In search of infinity | Vilenkin | @RobJLow | | | Mathematical Puzzles And Diversions | Martin Gardner | @ColinTheMathmo | | | Beating the Odds | Rob Eastaway & John Haigh | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Prime Obsession | John Derbyshire | | | | Math with Bad Drawings | Ben Orlin | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Beyond Numeracy | ?? | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Housekeeper And The Professor | Yoko Ogawa | @mathstechnology _ (Tom Button) _ @ColinTheMathmo | | | Logicomix | Alecos Papadatos, Apostolos Doxiadis, and Christos Papadimitriou | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Art of Logic | @DrEugeniaCheng | | | | Hello World | @FryRsquared _ (Hannah Fry) | @MikeAndAllie _ @ColinTheMathmo | | | Letters to a Mathematician | @JoatStewart _ (Ian Stewart) | | | | On Numbers And Games | John Horton Conway | @PaulsPrattle | | | The Big Bang | Simon Singh | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Genius | James Gleick | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans | @MelMitchell1 _ (Melanie Mitchell) | @MikeAndAllie | | | The Princeton Companion to Mathematics | @wtgowers _ (Tim Gowers) | @ColinTheMathmo | | | Math From 3 to 7 | Alexander Zvonkin | @ccppurcell@mathstodon.xyz | Probably for parents and educators | | Mathematics + Art: A cultural History | Lynn Gamwell | @PaulsPrattle | | | Concepts of Modern Mathematics | @JoatStewart _ (Ian Stewart) | @Tomboktu | | | The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage | @SydneyPadua | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Understanding Analysis | Stephen Abbot | @rnather@mathstodon.xyz | Helpful for its very illuminating use of examples | | The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge | UKMT | | | | The King of Infinite Space | Siobhan Roberts | @PaulsPrattle | | | 1089 and All That | David Acheson | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Islamic Geometric Patterns | Eric Broug | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Code Book | @SLSingh | @ColinTheMathmo _ @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Millennium Problems | Keith Devlin | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Mathematics for Human Flourishing | @mathyawp _ (Francis Su) | @KellyDarkeMath _ @ColinTheMathmo | | | Infinite Powers | Steven @Strogatz | @RobJLow _ @marian_v_o _ @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Imagining Numbers | Barry Mazur | | | | Gallery of the Infinite | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | | | Maths on the Back of an Envelope | @RobEastaway | @last_centurion _ @ColinTheMathmo | | | Foolproof | Brian Hayes | @IceColBeveridge | | | Chaos | James Gleick | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Symmetries of Things | Goodman-Strauss, Burgiel, and John Horton Conway | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | | | Feynman | Ottavianni & Myrick | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Elementary Number Theory: A Problem Oriented Approach | Joe Roberts | @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz | Doesn't require a lot of background, the puzzles are actually fun, and the thing's just plain /pretty/ | | Tales of Impossibility | @divbyzero _ (Dave Richeson) | @RanAriGur | | | Cracking Mathematics | @IceColBeveridge _ (Colin Beveridge) | @ColinTheMathmo | | | Art of the Infinite | Robert Kaplan _ & Ellen Kaplan | @MohamarF | | | How to Think Like a Mathematician | @k_houston_math _ (Kevin Houston) | @ColinTheMathmo | | | Journey Through Genius | William Dunham | | | | A Companion to Analysis | Tom Körner | Adam Atkinson | | | Weapons of Math Destruction | @mathbabedotorg _ (Cathy O'Neil) | @MikeAndAllie | | | Indra's Pearls | Mumford, Series, and Wright | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | | | Alex's Adventures in Numberland | @AlexBellos | @ColinTheMathmo _ @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Unexpected Hanging | Martin Gardner | @ColinTheMathmo | | | Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway | Siobhan Roberts | | | | The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus | @FryRsquared _ (Hannah Fry) & _ Dr Thomas Oleron Evans | @Heimdayl | | | Beyond Infinity | @DrEugeniaCheng | @KellyDarkeMath | | | Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis | Dan Rockmore | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | | | Measurement | Paul Lockhart | | The Math Behind the Music | Harkleroad | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | You Can Count On Monsters | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | | | Pythagoras' Theorem | RBA | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Life on the Infinite Farm | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | | | The GCHQ Puzzle Book | GCHQ | | | | Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes | @RichardElwes | | | | Flatland | Edwin Abbott Abbott | @bmreiniger@mathstodon.xyz | | | Finding Moonshine | Marcus du Sautoy | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities | @JoatStewart _ (Ian Stewart) | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Four Colours Suffice | Robin Wilson | @MarHarStar _ @ColinTheMathmo | | | Euler's Gem | @divbyzero _ (Dave Richeson) | @ProfNoodlearms | | | The Joy of X | Steven @Strogatz | @RobJLow | | | A History of Mathematics | Carl B Boyer | | | | Mathematics 1001 | @RichardElwes | @PaulsPrattle | | | Pythagoras | Kitty Ferguson | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | The Penguin Dictionary of Curious And Interesting Geometry | David Wells | @matheknitician | | | The Order of Time | @CarloRovelli | @marian_v_o | | | The Maths Gene | Keith Devlin | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Winning Ways | Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard Guy | @ColinTheMathmo | | | The Pleasures of Counting | Tom Körner | Adam Atkinson | | | AntiMatter | Frank Close | | | | Proofs from The Book | Aigner and Ziegler | @ColinTheMathmo | | | Beautiful Geometry | Maor And Jost | @PaulsPrattle | | | Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension | @StandUpMaths _ (Matt Parker) | @ColinTheMathmo | | | Really Big Numbers | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | | | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers | Paul Hiffman | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | A Mathematician Plays the Market | @JohnAllenPaulos | | | | e: The Story of a Number | Eli Maor | | How to Bake Pi | @DrEugeniaCheng | | | | The Maths of Life and Death | @Kit_Yates_Maths _ (Kit Yates) | | | | Mathematician's Lament | Paul Lockhart | @KellyDarkeMath | | | You are a Mathematician | David Wells | @RobJLow _ @matheknitician | A good way to see the difference between _ studying the discipline of mathematics _ and doing mathematics. | | The Mathematical Experience | Philip J. Davis _ and Reuben Hersh | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | Music of the Primes | @MarcusduSautoy | @johng225 | | | Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction | @wtgowers _ (Tim Gowers) | @bmreiniger@mathstodon.xyz | | | How not to be wrong | @JSEllenberg | @RobJLow | | | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas Hofstadter | @Tomboktu _ @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | | How To Solve It | George Pólya | @ccppurcell@mathstodon.xyz | | | Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. | Charles Seife | | | | A Compendium of Mathematical Methods | @MathsJem | @Heimdayl | | | What is Mathematics? | Courant and Robbins | | 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know | Professor Tony Crilly | @ChristianP | | | DIV, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus | Harry M. Schey | @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz | | | Prelude to Mathematics | W.W. Sawyer | | | | Can You Solve My Problems | @AlexBellos | | | | This Is Your Brain On Music | Daniel J. Levitin | @MathsTechnology _ (Tom Button) | | ---- !! Links * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703104.DIV_Grad_Curl_and_All_That * https://archive.org/details/ElementaryNumberTheory_841/ ----