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Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway

By Siobhan Roberts

Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

By Gessen, Masha

Frege: An Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy (Penguin philosophy)

By Anthony Kenny, Kenny, Anthony

Dr. Riemann's Zeros

By Karl Sabbagh, Sabbagh, Karl

Meaning and Grammar, second edition: An Introduction to Semantics (The MIT Press)

By Chierchia, Gennaro, Mcconnell-Ginet, Sally

Paul Sinha's Real British Citizenship Test: Everything you need to know to call yourself British

By Sinha, Paul

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi: A Math Adventure

By Neuschwander, Cindy, Geehan, Wayne

The Elizabethan World Picture

By Tillyard, E M W

Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime

By Gessen, Masha

Mathematics and Mathematicians: v. 2 (Student Library)

By Dedron, P., Itard, J.

Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics (Wiley Science Editions)

By Dunham, WILLIAM

This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer

By Holub, Joan, Roode, Daniel

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

By Derbyshire, John

The Bride of Science: A Life of Ada Lovelace

By Benjamin Woolley

A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)

By G.H. Hardy, g-h-hardy

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

By Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman

Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann

By Ioan James (University of Oxford)

The Man Who Knew Infinity

By Robert Kanigel

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

By D.M. Cannell

Famous People: Dr John Dee

Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

By Daniel Tammet

Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

By Perry Mehrling, Aaron Brown

The Hapless Teacher's Handbook

By Phil ball

The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

By Swade, Doron

The Great Philosophers: Turing: No. 3

By Hodges, Andrew

A Mathematician Plays the Market

By Paulos, John Allen

Lewis Carroll: A Biography

By Cohen, Morton N.

Einstein's Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius

By David Bodanis

Stochastic Geometry (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

By Harding, Robert

Lewis Carroll and Alice (New Horizons)

By Stephanie Lovett Stoffel