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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Geometry Ancient and Modern

By John R. Silvester (King's College London)

Mathematics and Its History

By John Stillwell

Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics

By David Berlinski

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

By Ananyo Bhattacharya

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

By Charles Seife

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

By John Derbyshire

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

By Edward Frenkel

What To Solve?: Problems and Suggestions for Young Mathematicians

By Judita Cofman (Teacher of Mathematics, Teacher of Mathematics, Putney High School)

Worlds Out of Nothing: A Course in the History of Geometry in the 19th Century

By Jeremy Gray

Worlds Out of Nothing: A Course in the History of Geometry in the 19th Century

By Jeremy Gray

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener - Father of Cybernetics

By Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman

Goodbye Descartes: End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

By Keith J. Devlin

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of -1

By Paul J. Nahin

Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann

By Ioan James (University of Oxford)

Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem

By Amir D. Azcel

Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

By Graham Farmelo

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Adventures of a Mathematician

By S. M. Ulam, Daniel Hirsch, William G. Mathews, Francoise Ulam, Jan Mycielski

Modelling with Mathematics: An Introduction: Unit 12-13: Modelling with Integration

Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything

By Rob Eastaway

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

By Stephen Hawking

George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841: The Background to His Life and Work

By D.M. Cannell

Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the Fifteenth Century

By Frank J. Swetz

Historical Connections in Mathematics: Resources for Using History of Mathmatics in the Classroom

By Wilbert Reimer

Foundation Mathematics for Engineers

By John Berry, Patrick Wainright

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

By W.W.Rouse Ball

Mathematics in Western Culture

By Morris Kline

Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

By Ian Stewart