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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 644 times as math)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,089 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 576 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,109 ratings — published 1997
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 574 times as math)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,101 ratings — published 1944
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 571 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,142 ratings — published 2014
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as math)
avg rating 3.81 — 76,590 ratings — published 1884
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 495 times as math)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,720 ratings — published 2012
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as math)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,687 ratings — published 2000
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 380 times as math)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,208 ratings — published 2019
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as math)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,018 ratings — published 1941
A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as math)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,662 ratings — published 1940
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
by (shelved 335 times as math)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,655 ratings — published 2014
Math Curse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as math)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,847 ratings — published 1995
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as math)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,668 ratings — published 2019
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as math)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,991 ratings — published 1998
Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 298 times as math)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,247 ratings — published 1995
The Doorbell Rang (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as math)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,915 ratings — published 1986
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as math)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,950 ratings — published 1990
How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 972 ratings — published 1994
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,734 ratings — published 1999
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as math)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,749 ratings — published 2003
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as math)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,659 ratings — published 2007
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as math)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,861 ratings — published 1988
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure (Sir Cumference, #1)
by (shelved 265 times as math)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,503 ratings — published 1997
The Greedy Triangle (Brainy Day Books)
by (shelved 265 times as math)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,424 ratings — published 1994
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as math)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,804 ratings — published 1954
Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 250 times as math)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,630 ratings — published 2010
The Music of the Primes (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as math)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,250 ratings — published 2003
Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as math)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,883 ratings — published 1964
Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as math)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,531 ratings — published 1958
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,262 ratings — published 2008
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as math)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,667 ratings — published 2016
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as math)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,393 ratings — published 2009
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as math)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,899 ratings — published 2013
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as math)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,619 ratings — published 1987
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as math)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,302 ratings — published 1988
How Much Is a Million? (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as math)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,284 ratings — published 1985
Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as math)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,349 ratings — published -290
Calculus Made Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as math)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,249 ratings — published 1910
The Grapes of Math (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as math)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,435 ratings — published 2001
Proofs from the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as math)
avg rating 4.40 — 859 ratings — published 1998
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as math)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,235 ratings — published 2002
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as math)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,510 ratings — published 2009
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as math)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,863 ratings — published 1991
Topology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,225 ratings — published 1974
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,487 ratings — published 1998
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as math)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,162 ratings — published 1993
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as math)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,283 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as math)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,251 ratings — published 2013
Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 166 times as math)
avg rating 4.23 — 618 ratings — published 1960
“Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.”
― A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
― A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
