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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Thrift)
by Edwin A. Abbott (shelved 31 times as math)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,746 ratings — published 1880
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 28 times as math)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,017 ratings — published 1979
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 23 times as math)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,068 ratings — published 1997
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by John Allen Paulos (shelved 17 times as math)
avg rating 3.84 — 548 ratings — published 1988
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by Charles Seife (shelved 17 times as math)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,232 ratings — published 2000
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Math Curse (Hardcover)
by Jon Scieszka (shelved 16 times as math)
avg rating 4.10 — 874 ratings — published 1995
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The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (Paperback)
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (shelved 16 times as math)
avg rating 3.90 — 477 ratings — published 1997
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by Paul Hoffman (shelved 16 times as math)
avg rating 4.10 — 528 ratings — published 1998
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
by Mario Livio (shelved 13 times as math)
avg rating 3.59 — 893 ratings — published 2002
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A History of Pi (Paperback)
by Petr Beckmann (shelved 12 times as math)
avg rating 3.71 — 269 ratings — published 1970
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How to Lie With Statistics (Paperback)
by Darrell Huff (shelved 11 times as math)
avg rating 3.75 — 443 ratings — published 1954
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 11 times as math)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,464 ratings — published 1999
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Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by James Gleick (shelved 11 times as math)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,649 ratings — published 1987
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Principles of Mathematical Analysis (International Series in Pure & Applied Mathematics)
by Walter Rudin (shelved 10 times as math)
avg rating 4.03 — 61 ratings — published 1964
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Grapes Of Math (bkshelf) (Scholastic Bookshelf)
by Greg Tang (shelved 9 times as math)
avg rating 3.97 — 57 ratings — published 2001
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How Much Is a Million? 20th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Book)
by David M. Schwartz (shelved 9 times as math)
avg rating 4.17 — 170 ratings — published 1985
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The Joy of Mathematics (Paperback)
by Theoni Pappas (shelved 8 times as math)
avg rating 3.41 — 50 ratings — published 1993
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Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure (Hardcover)
by Cindy Neuschwander (shelved 8 times as math)
avg rating 4.21 — 110 ratings — published 1997
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Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
by John Derbyshire (shelved 8 times as math)
avg rating 3.94 — 171 ratings — published 2003
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries)
by David Foster Wallace (shelved 8 times as math)
avg rating 3.53 — 856 ratings — published 2003
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by Leonard Mlodinow (shelved 7 times as math)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,722 ratings — published 2008
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The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics (Paperback)
by Keith J. Devlin (shelved 7 times as math)
avg rating 3.57 — 80 ratings — published 2007
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I Hate Mathematics! Book (Hardcover)
by Linda Allison (shelved 7 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 29 ratings — published 1975
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A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by G.H. Hardy (shelved 7 times as math)
avg rating 4.02 — 271 ratings — published 1940
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Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So (Paperback)
by Ian Stewart (shelved 7 times as math)
avg rating 3.41 — 257 ratings — published 2001
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Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (Paperback)
by John Derbyshire (shelved 7 times as math)
avg rating 3.54 — 112 ratings — published 2006
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A Tour of the Calculus (Paperback)
by David Berlinski (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 3.66 — 209 ratings — published 1996
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A Beautiful Mind (Paperback)
by Sylvia Nasar (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,361 ratings — published 1998
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The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics (Paperback)
by Marcus du Sautoy (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 4.11 — 158 ratings — published 2003
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Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi: A Math Adventure (Paperback)
by Cindy Neuschwander (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 4.10 — 105 ratings — published 1999
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Inch by Inch (Paperback)
by Leo Lionni (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 165 ratings — published 1962
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Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail (Hardcover)
by Danica McKellar (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 4.13 — 234 ratings — published 2007
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G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book (Hardcover)
by David M. Schwartz (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 4.45 — 36 ratings — published 1998
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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science (Paperback)
by Michael S. Schneider (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 4.40 — 187 ratings — published 1994
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by George Pólya (shelved 6 times as math)
avg rating 4.01 — 149 ratings — published 1971
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One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale (Hardcover)
by Demi (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.35 — 155 ratings — published 1997
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The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat (Paperback)
by Theoni Pappas (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.10 — 27 ratings — published 1997
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The Lion's Share (Hardcover)
by Matthew McElligott (Goodreads author) (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.04 — 66 ratings — published 2009
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by Edward R. Tufte (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,320 ratings — published 1992
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by Richard P. Feynman (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,670 ratings — published 1985
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Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
by Thomas W. Hungerford (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.50 — 22 ratings — published 2003
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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History (Hardcover)
by Stephen W. Hawking (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.03 — 228 ratings — published 2005
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Paperback)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,894 ratings — published 2001
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries)
by Rebecca Goldstein (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 3.79 — 170 ratings — published 2005
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Topology (2nd Edition)
by James R. Munkres (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.04 — 71 ratings — published 1999
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Cryptonomicon (Paperback)
by Neal Stephenson (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,267 ratings — published 1999
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Calculus (with Tools for Enriching Calculus, Video CD-ROM, iLrn Homework, and vMentor )
by James Stewart (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 3.48 — 86 ratings — published 1991
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Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by H. M. Schey (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 1973
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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics (Science Masters Series)
by Ian Stewart (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 3.61 — 78 ratings — published 1995
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Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring)
by Ian Stewart (shelved 5 times as math)
avg rating 3.57 — 79 ratings — published 2006
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""Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection." "
— David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest: A Novel)
— David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest: A Novel)
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"When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?"
— Enrico Bombieri
— Enrico Bombieri
The Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun (Sample Chapters)
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3 chapters — updated 06/25/2008 03:29PM — 0 people liked it
