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Mathematics

Resources in mathematics.

Popular Mathematics Books

Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race - Shetterly
A Russian childhood - Kovalevskaya
Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya - Audin
Emmy Noether, 1882-1935 - Dick
Power in numbers: the rebel women of mathematics - Williams
Women of mathematics: a biobibliographic sourcebook - Grinstein & Campbell
Prime obsession : Bernhard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics - Derbyshire
The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdős and the search for mathematical truth - Hoffman
Men of mathematics - Bell
The man who knew infinity : a life of the genius, Ramanujan - Kanigel
A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. - Nasar
A mathematician’s apology - Hardy
Logicomix - Doxiadēs

Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy - O'Neil
How not to be wrong : the power of mathematical thinking - Ellenberg
The millennium problems : the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time - Devlin
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid - Hofstadter
Chaos: making a new science - 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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