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Popular Math Books
Popular Math Books
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The Doorbell Rang (Paperback)
by Pat Hutchins (shelved 181 times as math)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,779 ratings — published 1986
The Greedy Triangle (Hardcover)
by Marilyn Burns (shelved 150 times as math)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,371 ratings — published 1994
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 145 times as math)
avg rating 4.29 — 35,357 ratings — published 1979
Math Curse (Hardcover)
by Jon Scieszka (shelved 135 times as math)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,664 ratings — published 1995
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by Edwin A. Abbott (shelved 127 times as math)
avg rating 3.78 — 25,665 ratings — published 1884
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 116 times as math)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,896 ratings — published 1997
How Much Is a Million? (Paperback)
by David M. Schwartz (shelved 88 times as math)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,257 ratings — published 1985
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by Paul Hoffman (shelved 84 times as math)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,616 ratings — published 1998
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday (Paperback)
by Judith Viorst (shelved 79 times as math)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,783 ratings — published 1978
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! (Hardcover)
by Marilyn Burns (shelved 79 times as math)
avg rating 4.01 — 246 ratings — published 1997
Grapes Of Math (Paperback)
by Greg Tang (shelved 77 times as math)
avg rating 3.96 — 998 ratings — published 2001
One Hundred Hungry Ants (Paperback)
by Elinor J. Pinczes (shelved 77 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 827 ratings — published 1993
Inch by Inch (Paperback)
by Leo Lionni (shelved 77 times as math)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,798 ratings — published 1960
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by Charles Seife (shelved 77 times as math)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,012 ratings — published 2000
The Grouchy Ladybug (Paperback)
by Eric Carle (shelved 76 times as math)
avg rating 4.06 — 15,835 ratings — published 1977
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
by Mario Livio (Goodreads Author) (shelved 70 times as math)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,220 ratings — published 2002
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book)
by Eric Carle (shelved 69 times as math)
avg rating 4.26 — 145,574 ratings — published 1969
Measuring Penny (Hardcover)
by Loreen Leedy (shelved 66 times as math)
avg rating 4.09 — 455 ratings — published 1998
How Big Is a Foot? (Paperback)
by Rolf Myller (shelved 64 times as math)
avg rating 4.02 — 468 ratings — published 1962
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 60 times as math)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,387 ratings — published 1999
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by Leonard Mlodinow (shelved 56 times as math)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,770 ratings — published 2008
Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money (Paperback)
by Amy Axelrod (shelved 55 times as math)
avg rating 3.86 — 299 ratings — published 1997
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by John Allen Paulos (shelved 51 times as math)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,530 ratings — published 1988
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Paperback)
by George Pólya (shelved 51 times as math)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,571 ratings — published 1944
A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by G.H. Hardy (shelved 50 times as math)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,464 ratings — published 1940
My Full Moon is Square (Hardcover)
by Elinor J. Pinczes (shelved 49 times as math)
avg rating 4.00 — 95 ratings — published 2002
Give Me Half! (MathStart Level 2)
by Stuart J. Murphy (Goodreads Author) (shelved 49 times as math)
avg rating 3.72 — 182 ratings — published 1996
Chaos: The Making of a New Science (Paperback)
by James Gleick (shelved 49 times as math)
avg rating 3.96 — 17,619 ratings — published 1987
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (Paperback)
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (shelved 48 times as math)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,126 ratings — published 1997
A Remainder of One (Hardcover)
by Elinor J. Pinczes (shelved 46 times as math)
avg rating 3.94 — 202 ratings — published 1995
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics (Paperback)
by Marcus du Sautoy (shelved 45 times as math)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,286 ratings — published 2003
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
by William Dunham (shelved 44 times as math)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,686 ratings — published 1990
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Hardcover)
by Dr. Seuss (shelved 42 times as math)
avg rating 4.08 — 76,948 ratings — published 1960
Math For All Seasons (Paperback)
by Greg Tang (shelved 42 times as math)
avg rating 4.12 — 198 ratings — published 2002
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
by John Derbyshire (shelved 42 times as math)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,603 ratings — published 2003
Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math (Hardcover)
by Alex Bellos (Goodreads Author) (shelved 41 times as math)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,287 ratings — published 2010
The Penny Pot (Paperback)
by Stuart J. Murphy (Goodreads Author) (shelved 41 times as math)
avg rating 4.11 — 164 ratings — published 1998
Counting on Frank (Paperback)
by Rod Clement (shelved 40 times as math)
avg rating 4.06 — 176 ratings — published 1991
A History of Pi (Paperback)
by Petr Beckmann (shelved 40 times as math)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,823 ratings — published
Ten Apples Up On Top! (Hardcover)
by Theo LeSieg (shelved 39 times as math)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,402 ratings — published 1961
Chrysanthemum (Paperback)
by Kevin Henkes (shelved 38 times as math)
avg rating 4.27 — 22,999 ratings — published 1991
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Hardcover)
by Timothy Gowers (shelved 38 times as math)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,062 ratings — published 2007
Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)
by Ernest Nagel (shelved 38 times as math)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,339 ratings — published 1958
Apple Fractions (Paperback)
by Jerry Pallotta (shelved 37 times as math)
avg rating 4.03 — 136 ratings — published 2003
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by Darrell Huff (shelved 37 times as math)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,843 ratings — published 1954
Caps for Sale (Paperback)
by Esphyr Slobodkina (shelved 36 times as math)
avg rating 4.08 — 38,259 ratings — published 1938
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? (Hardcover)
by Margaret McNamara (shelved 35 times as math)
avg rating 4.04 — 232 ratings — published 2007
The Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Paperback)
by Walter Rudin (shelved 35 times as math)
avg rating 4.22 — 607 ratings — published 1964
Fraction Action (Paperback)
by Loreen Leedy (shelved 34 times as math)
avg rating 4.05 — 115 ratings — published 1994
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
by Apostolos Doxiadis (shelved 34 times as math)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,279 ratings — published 2008
“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Yes, but you need to learn your maths."
"I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
"I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon










