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Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature

By Marcus Du Sautoy

50 Visions of Mathematics

By Sam Parc (Insitute of Mathematics and its Applications), Dara O' Briain

The Universal History of Computing - From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer

By G Ifrah

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future

By Mervyn King, John Kay

The Infinite in the Finite

By Alistair Macintosh Wilson

Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos and Other Great Theories of 20th-century Mathematics

By John L. Casti

The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes

By David Darling

Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice

By Robert Lawlor

Latent Variable Models and Factor Analysis

By David J. Bartholomew

Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite

By Joseph Warren Dauben

e: The Story of a Number

By Eli Maor

Philosophy of Mathematics 2ed: Selected Readings

By Benacerraf, Paul

There's Something About Goedel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem

By Francesco Berto (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis

By Barry Mazur (Harvard University, Massachusetts), William Stein (University of Washington)

The Music of the Primes

By Marcus Du Sautoy

The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue

By William Dunham

Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers

By Dan Rockmore

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

By Morris Kline

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

By Julian Havil

Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics

By Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher), G. E. M. Anscombe (University of Cambridge, UK), Rush Rhees (Former pupil of Wittgenstein), G. H. von Wright (University of Helsinki)

Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

By George G. Szpiro

Ramanujan: The Man & the Mathematician

By S. R. Ranganathan

Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

Probability

By Darrell P. Rowbottom

Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?

By E. Brian Davies (Department of Mathematics, King's college, London)

Newton's Principia for the Common Reader

By S. Chandrasekhar (, University of Chicago)

Euler's Pioneering Equation: The most beautiful theorem in mathematics

By Robin Wilson (Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Open University)

50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know

By Tony Crilly

Goedel's Theorem: A Very Short Introduction

By A. W. Moore (Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh's College, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford)

Mathematics as a Science of Patterns

By Michael D. Resnik (University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)