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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 661 times as math)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,250 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 586 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,807 ratings — published 1997
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 583 times as math)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,235 ratings — published 1944
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 576 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,659 ratings — published 2014
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 510 times as math)
avg rating 3.81 — 78,838 ratings — published 1884
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 506 times as math)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,972 ratings — published 2012
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as math)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,535 ratings — published 2019
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as math)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,909 ratings — published 2000
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as math)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,033 ratings — published 1941
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
by (shelved 345 times as math)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,214 ratings — published 2014
A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as math)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,852 ratings — published 1940
Math Curse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as math)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,862 ratings — published 1995
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as math)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,916 ratings — published 2019
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as math)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,090 ratings — published 1998
Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 315 times as math)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,307 ratings — published 1995
How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,002 ratings — published 1994
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as math)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,983 ratings — published 1990
The Doorbell Rang (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as math)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,920 ratings — published 1986
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,270 ratings — published 1999
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as math)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,665 ratings — published 2007
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 277 times as math)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,876 ratings — published 1988
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as math)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,787 ratings — published 2003
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure (Sir Cumference, #1)
by (shelved 269 times as math)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,522 ratings — published 1997
The Greedy Triangle (Brainy Day Books)
by (shelved 267 times as math)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,435 ratings — published 1994
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as math)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,324 ratings — published 1954
Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as math)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,918 ratings — published 1964
Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as math)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,607 ratings — published 1958
Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 250 times as math)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,718 ratings — published 2010
The Music of the Primes (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as math)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,357 ratings — published 2003
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as math)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,542 ratings — published 2016
Calculus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as math)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,020 ratings — published 1967
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,711 ratings — published 2008
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as math)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,525 ratings — published 2009
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as math)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,983 ratings — published 2013
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as math)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,561 ratings — published 1987
Calculus Made Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as math)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,280 ratings — published 1910
How Much Is a Million? (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as math)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,297 ratings — published 1985
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as math)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,368 ratings — published 1988
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as math)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,759 ratings — published 2012
Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as math)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,392 ratings — published -290
The Grapes of Math (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as math)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,442 ratings — published 2001
Proofs from the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as math)
avg rating 4.40 — 871 ratings — published 1998
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as math)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,290 ratings — published 2002
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as math)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,791 ratings — published 2009
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as math)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,982 ratings — published 1991
Topology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as math)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,248 ratings — published 1974
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as math)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,502 ratings — published 1998
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as math)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,400 ratings — published 2014
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as math)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,188 ratings — published 1993
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as math)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,270 ratings — published 2013
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
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“[When asked why are numbers beautiful?]
It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.”
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It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.”
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