Best Books About Mathematics
4. 
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating β 28,489 ratings 
6. 
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul ErdΕs and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by:
Paul Hoffman
4.05 avg rating β 9,905 ratings 7. 
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
by:
William Dunham
4.22 avg rating β 2,937 ratings 
10. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating β 213,221 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating β 24,070 ratings 12. 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by:
Richard Courant
4.25 avg rating β 2,015 ratings 
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by:
Robert Kanigel
4.03 avg rating β 8,789 ratings 
21. 
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by:
John Derbyshire
4.15 avg rating β 3,734 ratings 22. 
Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
by:
Alex Bellos
4.11 avg rating β 5,583 ratings 23. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,883 ratings 
26. 
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
by:
Paul Lockhart
4.21 avg rating β 3,343 ratings 
30. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating β 69,685 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating β 75,029 ratings 
35. 
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
by:
Albert Einstein
4.20 avg rating β 22,703 ratings 
38. 
Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
by:
John Derbyshire
3.90 avg rating β 765 ratings 
45. 
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by:
Mario Livio
3.80 avg rating β 6,219 ratings 46. 
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.89 avg rating β 2,204 ratings 47. 
The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities
by:
William Dunham
4.16 avg rating β 517 ratings 
49. 
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
by:
Roger Penrose
4.16 avg rating β 8,351 ratings 
51. 
The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner
by:
Philip J. Davis
4.05 avg rating β 676 ratings 52. 
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
by:
Malba Tahan
4.10 avg rating β 6,594 ratings 53. 
Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb 3.92 avg rating β 2,095 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating β 29,313 ratings 56. 
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
by:
Ronald Graham
4.34 avg rating β 1,857 ratings 57. 
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
by:
Mario Livio
3.89 avg rating β 1,518 ratings 
60. 
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics 4.03 avg rating β 2,182 ratings
60. 
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
by:
Ian Stewart
3.96 avg rating β 3,269 ratings 
68. 
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
by:
George PΓ³lya
4.13 avg rating β 5,046 ratings 69. 
My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul ErdΕs
by:
Bruce Schechter
4.21 avg rating β 615 ratings 
73. 
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering 4.38 avg rating β 1,511 ratings
74. 
Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge 4.04 avg rating β 633 ratings
76. 
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by:
George Gamow
4.21 avg rating β 3,723 ratings 77. 
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
by:
Masha Gessen
3.94 avg rating β 1,368 ratings 
79. 
Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by:
Ian Stewart
4.12 avg rating β 595 ratings 80. 
84. 
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
by:
Stephen Hawking
4.06 avg rating β 2,011 ratings 
86. 
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern 4.20 avg rating β 3,662 ratings
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Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills
by:
Paul J. Nahin
4.11 avg rating β 284 ratings 89. 
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
by:
David Leavitt
3.46 avg rating β 1,430 ratings 90. 
The PoincarΓ© Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe
by:
Donal O'Shea
3.87 avg rating β 904 ratings 
93. 
Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
by:
John D. Barrow
3.94 avg rating β 340 ratings 94. 
How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums
by:
Ian Stewart
3.71 avg rating β 259 ratings 94. 
96. 
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by:
Jordan Ellenberg
3.95 avg rating β 20,874 ratings 97. 
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
by:
Max Tegmark
4.18 avg rating β 8,243 ratings 
99. 
The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
by:
Reviel Netz
3.90 avg rating β 707 ratings 100. 
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved
by:
Robin J. Wilson
3.73 avg rating β 281 ratings