Mathematical Biography
1. 
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by:
Paul Hoffman
4.05 avg rating — 9,905 ratings 2. 
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by:
Robert Kanigel
4.03 avg rating — 8,789 ratings 
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by:
John Derbyshire
4.15 avg rating — 3,733 ratings 8. 
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
by:
Masha Gessen
3.94 avg rating — 1,368 ratings 
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Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
by:
Siobhan Roberts
3.94 avg rating — 421 ratings 11. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,022 ratings 
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King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
by:
Siobhan Roberts
3.83 avg rating — 133 ratings 18. 
John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More
by:
Norman Macrae
3.73 avg rating — 248 ratings 
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A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours 3.51 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Жизнеописание Льва Семеновича Понтрягина, математика, составленное им самим
by:
L.S. Pontryagin
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Stephen Smale: The Mathematician Who Broke the Dimension Barrier
by:
Steve Batterson
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician
by:
Dora Musielak
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 30. 
Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Diagrams
by:
Robert A. Black
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Proving It Her Way: Emmy Noether, a Life in Mathematics
by:
David E. Rowe
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 34. 
Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World
by:
Robert A. Black
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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David Blackwell and the Deadliest Duel
by:
Robert A. Black
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 40. 
Emmy Noether: A Tribute to Her Life and Work (Monographs and Textbooks in Pure and Applied Mathematics, V. 69)
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Emmy Noether
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 40. 
Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies
by:
Robert A. Black
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God
by:
Massimo Mazzotti
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings 42. 
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A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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