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Mathematicians Books
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Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,996 ratings — published 2016
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,125 ratings — published 1998
博士の愛した数式 [新潮CD] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,560 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,020 ratings — published 1991
The Infinities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.28 — 2,999 ratings — published 2009
Kapitoil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,281 ratings — published 2010
A Beautiful Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,741 ratings — published 1998
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.19 — 292 ratings — published 1985
My Remarkable Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,405 ratings — published 2021
Men of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,097 ratings — published 1937
Indiscrete Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.23 — 146 ratings — published 1996
Enchantress of Numbers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,879 ratings — published 2017
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,020 ratings — published 2013
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,974 ratings — published 2015
A Doubter's Almanac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,783 ratings — published 2016
Hilbert (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.26 — 176 ratings — published 1970
Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published 1985
Mathematicians on Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2014
The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.44 — 62 ratings — published 2007
The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.09 — 994 ratings — published 2014
Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,184 ratings — published 1992
Navigating the Math Major (Classroom Resource Materials)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,419 ratings — published 2009
Instructing the Mathematical Imagination (History of Mathematics)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Anomaly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,237 ratings — published 2020
Najwyższa wygrana (Komisarz Oczko, #24)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.67 — 139 ratings — published
The Maniac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,981 ratings — published 2023
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.16 — 83,538 ratings — published 2005
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.71 — 671,694 ratings — published 1998
Sir Isaac Newton: Brilliant Mathematician and Scientist (Signature Lives)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.78 — 23 ratings — published 2007
Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.28 — 39 ratings — published
The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.34 — 295 ratings — published 2006
Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.25 — 59 ratings — published 1979
Black Male Success in Higher Education: How the Mathematical Brotherhood Empowers a Collegiate Community to Thrive (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Women in MathArt: Research, Creativity, and Teaching (Association for Women in Mathematics Series, 34)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
New Light on George Boole (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.37 — 60 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Figures: An Inspiring Picture Book True Story About Women Who Changed Space History, for Children (Ages 6–10)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,403 ratings — published 2018
Vita Mathematica: Historical Research and Integration with Teaching (Mathematical Association of America Notes and Reports, No. 40)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1996
Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.67 — 133 ratings — published
Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.73 — 545 ratings — published 2006
Count Me In (AMS/MAA: Classroom Resource Materials, 68)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published
Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits: A Collection of Mathematics, Verse, and Stories (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, Vol 15)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1995
Doctor Cardano, physician extraordinary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,365 ratings — published 2021
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,996 ratings — published 1990
Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann (The Spectrum Series)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.10 — 63 ratings — published 1903
The Honors Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 4.12 — 77 ratings — published 2001
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mathematicians)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,060 ratings — published 1983
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