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Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as maths)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,114 ratings — published 1997
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as maths)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,860 ratings — published 2014
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as maths)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,800 ratings — published 1979
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as maths)
avg rating 3.81 — 79,957 ratings — published 1884
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 114 times as maths)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,307 ratings — published 1944
Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 111 times as maths)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,750 ratings — published 2010
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as maths)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,376 ratings — published 2019
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as maths)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,083 ratings — published 2012
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as maths)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,668 ratings — published 2019
A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as maths)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,967 ratings — published 1940
The Music of the Primes (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as maths)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,393 ratings — published 2003
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as maths)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,042 ratings — published 1941
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as maths)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,139 ratings — published 1998
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as maths)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,999 ratings — published 2000
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as maths)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,516 ratings — published 1999
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as maths)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,814 ratings — published 2003
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as maths)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,998 ratings — published 1990
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
by (shelved 68 times as maths)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,440 ratings — published 2014
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as maths)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,449 ratings — published 2014
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as maths)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,669 ratings — published 2007
Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 63 times as maths)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,331 ratings — published 1995
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as maths)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,534 ratings — published 1954
Calculus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as maths)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,032 ratings — published 1967
How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as maths)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,018 ratings — published 1994
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as maths)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,879 ratings — published 1988
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as maths)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,904 ratings — published 2016
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as maths)
avg rating 3.90 — 6,600 ratings — published 2013
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as maths)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,681 ratings — published 2012
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as maths)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,902 ratings — published 2008
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as maths)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,951 ratings — published 2002
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as maths)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,415 ratings — published 2012
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as maths)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,030 ratings — published 1991
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as maths)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,195 ratings — published 1993
Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as maths)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,639 ratings — published 1958
Proofs from the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as maths)
avg rating 4.40 — 872 ratings — published 1998
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as maths)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,510 ratings — published 1998
Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as maths)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,930 ratings — published 1964
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as maths)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,027 ratings — published 1987
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as maths)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,940 ratings — published 2019
A History of π (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as maths)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,879 ratings — published 1970
Calculus Made Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as maths)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,304 ratings — published 1910
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
by (shelved 44 times as maths)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,220 ratings — published 2009
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as maths)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,590 ratings — published 2009
Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as maths)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,299 ratings — published 1993
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as maths)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,035 ratings — published 2013
Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as maths)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,415 ratings — published -290
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as maths)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,938 ratings — published 2009
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as maths)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,405 ratings — published 1988
Letters to a Young Mathematician (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as maths)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,883 ratings — published 2006
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as maths)
avg rating 3.97 — 53,031 ratings — published 2012
“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.”
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“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”
― Prelude to Foundation
― Prelude to Foundation
