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Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 33,031 ratings — published 1997
A History of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,043 ratings — published 1968
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,018 ratings — published 2005
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,948 ratings — published 1990
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 9,978 ratings — published 1998
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,662 ratings — published 2000
A History of π (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,835 ratings — published 1970
Mathematics and Its History (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.33 — 211 ratings — published 1997
The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 24 ratings — published 1981
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 8,851 ratings — published 1991
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,484 ratings — published 1998
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 51,982 ratings — published 1979
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,187 ratings — published 2009
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 909 ratings — published 2007
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,746 ratings — published 2003
Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 429 ratings — published 2015
A History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1: From Thales to Euclid (Volume 1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 52 ratings — published 1921
Men of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,070 ratings — published 1937
The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 3.93 — 134 ratings — published 1959
History of Analytic Geometry (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 3.62 — 13 ratings — published 1988
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 114 ratings — published 2005
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 6,234 ratings — published 2002
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,160 ratings — published 1993
The Universe of the Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1971
The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 494 ratings — published 1991
Mathematics From The Birth Of Numbers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 591 ratings — published 1997
A Tour of the Calculus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 1,413 ratings — published 1995
The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,259 ratings — published 1999
The Maths Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 393 ratings — published 2019
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 679 ratings — published 2023
A Source Book in Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1984
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World (Nook)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,019 ratings — published 2014
Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity)
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avg rating 3.71 — 478 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1914-44 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 115 ratings — published 1968
Prior Analytics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 231 ratings — published -350
Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 3,344 ratings — published -290
A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 181 ratings — published 1900
Wu Wenjun of the Road (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.58 — 890 ratings — published 2023
Ideas of Space: Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and Relativistic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1989
The Daring Invention of Logarithm Tables: How Jost Bürgi, John Napier, and Henry Briggs simplified arithmetic and started the computing revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published
Number Stories of Long Ago (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 35 ratings — published 1919
Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 181 ratings — published
The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 95 ratings — published 1991
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 20,471 ratings — published 2009
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 6,659 ratings — published 1992
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,379 ratings — published 2009
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 511 ratings — published 1980
Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,621 ratings — published 2010
