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Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
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Shetterly
A Russian childhood
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Kovalevskaya
Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya
- Audin
Emmy Noether, 1882-1935
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Dick
Power in numbers: the rebel women of mathematics
- Williams
Women of mathematics: a biobibliographic sourcebook
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Grinstein & Campbell
Prime obsession : Bernhard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics
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Derbyshire
The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdős and the search for mathematical truth
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Hoffman
Men of mathematics
- Bell
The man who knew infinity : a life of the genius, Ramanujan
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Kanigel
A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr
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Nasar
A mathematician’s apology
- Hardy
Logicomix
- Doxiadēs
Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy
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O'Neil
How not to be wrong : the power of mathematical thinking
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Ellenberg
The millennium problems : the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time
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Devlin
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid
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Hofstadter
Chaos: making a new science
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Gleick
How to bake pi
- Cheng
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
- Frenkel
Euler's Gem
- Richeson
Alex's adventures in numberland
- Bellos
The Joy of X:
a guided tour of math, from one to infinity
- Strogatz
Hexaflexagons, probability paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi
- Gardner
The Universe in a Handkerchief
- Gardner
The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications
- Gardner
Riddles of the sphinx and other mathematical puzzle tales
- Gardner
Math hysteria
- Stewart
How to cut a cake
- Stewart
Slicing pizzas, racing turtles, and further adventures in applied mathematics
- Banks
One Hundred Twenty One Days
- Audin
Flatland
- Abbott
Curious incident of the dog in the night-time
- Haddon
Cryptonomicon
- Stephenson
Anathem
- Stephenson
The Mathematician's Shiva
- Rojstaczer
Sophie's Diary
- Musielak
Turing: a novel about computation
- Papadimitriou
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Relatively Prime
Carry the Two
Taking Maths Further
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My Favorite Theorem
Strongly Connected Components
A Brief History of Mathematic
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Hidden Figures
A Brilliant Young Mind
The Man Who Knew Infinity
A Beautiful Mind
The Imitation Game
Stand and Deliver
Flatland
Good Will Hunting
N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's tenth problem
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Numberphile
PBS Infinite Series
Vi Hart
Standupmaths
singingbanana
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