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ISAAC NEWTON: The Last Sorcerer

By White

The Undercover Mathematician: Band 11+/Lime Plus (Collins Big Cat)

By Rachael Davis, Alice Negri, Collins Big Cat

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

A History of Mathematics

By Carl B. Boyer (Brooklyn College), Uta C. Merzbach

Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism

By M. Panza, A. Sereni

An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: Mathematics as the Science of Quantity and Structure

By J. Franklin

Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics

By Robyn Arianrhod

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

By James Evans (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA)

Geometry Civilized

By John Heilbron

John Napier: Logarithm John

By Lynne Gladstone-Millar

Mathematical History: Activities, Puzzles, Stories and Games

By Mitchell, Merle

Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World

By Professor Oliver Johnson

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

By Jenny Ramsden

Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond

By David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee

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

By Norman Macrae

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)

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

By Euclid, Thomas L. Heath

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

By Robert Hannigan

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

Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite

By Joseph Warren Dauben

e: The Story of a Number

By Eli Maor

Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

By Avner Ash, Robert Gross

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

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

By Julian Havil

Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

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

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