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Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by James Gleick (shelved 3 times as maths)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,684 ratings — published 1987
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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 3 times as maths)
avg rating 4.11 — 543 ratings — published 1998
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 3 times as maths)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,108 ratings — published 1997
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Why Do Buses Come in Threes? (Paperback)
by Rob Eastaway (shelved 3 times as maths)
avg rating 3.30 — 30 ratings — published 1999
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Topology (2nd Edition)
by James R. Munkres (shelved 2 times as maths)
avg rating 4.04 — 71 ratings — published 1999
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Paperback)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (shelved 2 times as maths)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,954 ratings — published 2001
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The Man Who Knew Infinity (Paperback)
by Robert Kanigel (shelved 2 times as maths)
avg rating 3.99 — 163 ratings — published 1992
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Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So (Paperback)
by Ian Stewart (shelved 2 times as maths)
avg rating 3.42 — 271 ratings — published 2001
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 2 times as maths)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,517 ratings — published 1999
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Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (vol. 1)
by Morris Kline (shelved 2 times as maths)
avg rating 4.50 — 19 ratings — published 1973
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
by Mario Livio (shelved 2 times as maths)
avg rating 3.60 — 915 ratings — published 2002
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The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback)
by James Surowiecki (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,006 ratings — published 2004
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,409 ratings — published 2007
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback)
by Philip Ball (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.81 — 196 ratings — published 2004
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by Edward R. Tufte (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,365 ratings — published 1983
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart (Hardcover)
by Ian Ayres (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.57 — 765 ratings — published 2007
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The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed (Hardcover)
by Amir D. Aczel (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 2.74 — 76 ratings — published 2006
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Exploring the Real Numbers (Hardcover)
by Frederick W. Stevenson (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1999
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Little 1 (Hardcover)
by Ann Rand (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.46 — 22 ratings — published 1991
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Hippo Murderous Maths: The Essential Arithmetricks (Murderous Maths)
by Kjartan Poskitt (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.85 — 19 ratings — published 1999
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Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices (Paperback)
by Theoni Pappas (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.50 — 18 ratings — published 1993
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The Joy of Mathematics (Paperback)
by Theoni Pappas (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.41 — 51 ratings — published 1993
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The Wonderful World of Mathematics (Hardcover)
by Lancelot Hogben (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 0.0 — 3 ratings — published 1968
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Generatingfunctionology (Hardcover)
by Herbert S. Wilf (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2006
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The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs)
by Keith J. Devlin (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.76 — 43 ratings — published 2005
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The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like Gossip (Paperback)
by Keith J. Devlin (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.59 — 77 ratings — published 2000
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Keys to Infinity (Paperback)
by Clifford A. Pickover (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.83 — 10 ratings — published 1995
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The Art of Problem Solving: A Resource for the Mathematics Teacher (Paperback)
by Wolfgang Schulz (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1995
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Hardcover)
by Timothy Gowers (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.86 — 72 ratings — published 2007
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Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by Timothy Gowers (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.88 — 60 ratings — published 2002
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Randelementmethoden. (Paperback)
by Christoph Schwab (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
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Algebra (Springer-Lehrbuch) (German Edition)
by Siegfried Bosch (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
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Geheime Botschaften. (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.27 — 17 ratings — published 2000
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Algebraic Topology: An Introduction (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
by William S. Massey (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.80 — 9 ratings — published 1977
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Introduction to Coding Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
by J.H. Van Lint (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1997
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Analysis 2 (Taschenbuch)
by Konrad Königsberger (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
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Analysis 1 (Taschenbuch)
by Konrad Königsberger (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2003
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The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods (Mechanical Engineering (Springer-Verlag Telos Hardcover))
by Susanne C. Brenner (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1994
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Lineare Algebra (Broschiert)
by Albrecht Beutelspacher (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published 2003
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Analysis I (Paperback)
by Herbert Amann (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2005
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Biological Physics (Updated Edition)
by Philip Nelson (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published 2007
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Physical Biology of the Cell (Paperback)
by Rob Phillips (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 0.0 — 3 ratings — published 2008
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Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective (Hardcover)
by Richard Crandall (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published 2005
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The June Bug: A Study of Hysterical Contagion (Hardcover)
by Alan C. Kerckhoff (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published
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Speed System of Basic Mathematics (Paperback)
by Jakow Trachtenberg (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 1989
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Calculus (Hardcover)
by Gilbert Strang (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.67 — 8 ratings — published 1991
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Elliptic Curves Diophantine Analysis (Hardcover)
by Serge Lang (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 1978
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Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers (Hardcover)
by Jan Gullberg (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.22 — 85 ratings — published 1997
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Mathematics: The Science of Patterns (Paperback)
by Keith J. Devlin (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 3.85 — 20 ratings — published 1994
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What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Oxford Paperbacks)
by Richard Courant (shelved 1 time as maths)
avg rating 4.04 — 74 ratings — published 1996
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"On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as “bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentiated bipeds, located on one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, capable of recognising the prime numbers and moved by one extraordinary quality that lasts longer than all our other urges—curiosity.”"
— David Wells
— David Wells
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
— John von Neumann
— John von Neumann
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