History & Philosophy of Mathematics

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)

50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know

By Tony Crilly

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

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

Newton's Principia for the Common Reader

By S. Chandrasekhar (, University of Chicago)

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

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

Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

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

By Julian Havil

The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue

By William Dunham

The Music of the Primes

By Marcus Du Sautoy

Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis

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

Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

By Avner Ash, Robert Gross

e: The Story of a Number

By Eli Maor

Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite

By Joseph Warren Dauben

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

By David Darling

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

By John L. Casti

The Infinite in the Finite

By Alistair Macintosh Wilson

Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity

By Robert Hannigan

EUCLID. The Thirteen Books of The Elements: Volume 2: Books 3 to 9

By Euclid, Thomas L. Heath

Graph Theory 1736-1936

By Norman L. Biggs (Professor, Professor, London School of Economics), E. Keith Lloyd (, University of Southampton), Robin J. Wilson (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, The Open University)

John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

By Norman Macrae

Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond

By David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee

Whoever Thought of That?: Short Biographies of Some Contributors to the History of Mathematics

By Jenny Ramsden

Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

By Matt Parker

A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from

By Luke Heaton

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

By Tom Chivers

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By Reviel Netz, William Noel

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

By Stephen Hawking

Hilbert-Courant

By Constance Reid

The Times Millennium Quiz Book

By Howard Robin

Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

By Ian Stewart