General Math Books

  1. E. A. Abbott, Flatland: a romance of many dimensions, Princeton Univ. Press, 1991
  2. A. D. Aczel, The artist and the mathematician, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006
  3. D. J. Albers, G. L. Alexanderson, and C. Reid (ed.), More mathematical people: contemporary conversations, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Pub., 1990
  4. C. Arem, Conquering math anxiety, 2nd ed, BROOKS/COLE, 2003
  5. B. Atalay, Math and the Mona Lisa: the art and science of Leonardo da Vinci, Smithsonian Books, 2004
  6. W. W. R. Ball, A short account of the history of mathematics, Main Street, 2003
  7. P. Beckmann, A history of π (pi), Barnes & Noble Books, 1993
  8. J. L. Casti, 5 golden rules: great theories of 20th-century mathematics and why they matter, MJF Books, 1996
  9. R. Courant and H. Robbins, What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods, Oxford Univ. Press, 1978
  10. T. Dantzig, Number: the language of science, Pi Press, 2005
  11. K. Devlin, Mathematics: the new golden age, Penguin Books, 1988
  12. K. Devlin and D. Rosenberg, Language at work: analyzing communication breakdown in the workplace to inform systems design, CSLI Pub, 1996
  13. S. Flansburg, Math magic: the human calculator shows how to master everyday math problems in seconds, HarperPerennial, 1993
  14. M. Gardner, Mathematical circus, Alfred A. Knopf, 1979
  15. T. Gowers, Mathematics: a very short introduction, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002
  16. S. Hildebrandt and A. Tromba, Mathematics and optimal form, Scientific American Books, Inc., 1985
  17. J. C. Marshall and L. W. Hales, Essentials of testing, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Inc., 1972
  18. G. H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001
  19. G. Ifrah, From one to zero: a universal history of numbers, Viking, 1985
  20. M. Kaplan and E. Kaplan, Chances are...: adventures in probability, Viking, 2006
  21. M. Livio, The goldern ratio: the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number, Broadway Books, 2002
  22. E. Maor, To infinity and beyond: a cultural history of the infinite, Princeton Univ. Press, 1991
  23. E. Maor, e: The story of a number, Princeton Univ. Press, 1994
  24. J. McLeish, The story of numbers: how mathematicians has shaped civilization, Fawcett Columbine, 1994
  25. K. Menninger, Number words and number symbols: a cultural history of numbers, Dover, 1992
  26. E. Nagel and J. R. Newman, Godel's proof, New York Univ. Press, 1973
  27. P. J. Nahin, Duelling idiots and other probability puzzlers, Princeton Univ. Press, 2000
  28. D. Olivastro, Ancient puzzles: classic brainteasers and other timeless mathematical games of the last 10 centuries, Bantam Books, 1993
  29. L. M. Osen, Women in mathematics, The MIT Press, 1990
  30. D. O'Shea, The Poincaré conjecture: in search of the shape of the universe, Walker & Company, 2007
  31. J. A. Paulos, A mathematician reads the newspaper, Anchor Books, 1996
  32. H. Phillips, Caliban's problem book, Dover, 1961
  33. G. Polya, How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method, Princeton Univ. Press, 2004
  34. Scientific American, Mathematical thinking in behavioral sciences, W. H. Freeman and Co., 1968
  35. S. Singh, Fermat's enigma: the epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem, Anchor Books, 1998
  36. I. Stewart, Does God play dice?: the mathematics of chaos, Basil Blackwell Inc., 1991
  37. I. Stewart, Another fine math you've got me into..., W. H. Freeman and Company, 1992
  38. A. Schimmel, The mystery of numbers, Oxford Univ. Press, 1994
  39. D. Smeltzer, Man and number, Dover, 2003
  40. I. Stewart, The magical maze: seeing the world through mathematical eyes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997
  41. M. Tahan, The man who counted: a collection of mathematical adventures, W. W. Norton & Co., 1993
  42. I. Thomas, Greek mathematical works: Thales and Euclid (Loeb Classical Library), St Edmundsbury Press Ltd., 1998
  43. I. Thomas, Greek mathematical works II: Aristarchus to Papus of Alexandria (Loeb Classical Library), St Edmundsbury Press Ltd., 1993