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Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers

By Mazur, Joseph

Mathematics as Sign (Writing Science): Writing, Imagining, Counting

By Rotman, Brian

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics

By Tubbs, Robert, Jenkins, Alice, Engelhardt, Nina

Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (Renaissance Lives)

By Mary Ann Caws

Story Of Mathematics

By Mankiewicz, Richard

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

By Dunham, WILLIAM

The Limits of Mathematics: A course on information theory and the limits of formal reasoning (Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science)

By Chaitin, Gregory J.

Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

By Sfard, Anna

Frege's Notations: What They Are and How They Mean

By Gregory Landini, Michael Beaney

Moebius and his Band: Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-century Germany

By John Fauvel (formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, The Open University (deceased)), Raymond Flood (University Lecturer in Computing and Mathematics, Department for Continuing Education, University Lecturer in Computing and...

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

By Matt Ridley

Principles of Mathematics

By Bertrand Russell

Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond

By David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee

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

By Professor Oliver Johnson

The Non-Euclidean Revolution

By Richard J. Trudeau

Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

By Rudy Rucker

Icons and Symmetries

By Simon L. Altmann

Dummett on Analytical Philosophy

By B. Weiss

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

By J. Franklin

Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism

By M. Panza, A. Sereni

Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th Century Mathematics and Why They Matter

By John L. Casti

The Emergence of Mathematical Meaning: interaction in Classroom Cultures (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

By Cobb, Paul, Bauersfeld, Heinrich

Numbers: 10 Things You Should Know

By Colin Stuart

The Great Philosophers: Russell

By Ray Monk

Information: A Very Short Introduction

By Luciano Floridi (, Luciano Floridi is the Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford University.)

Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories

By John Allen Paulos

New Waves in Philosophical Logic

By G. Restall, G. Russell

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

By Rob Eastaway

Niels Bohr's Times

By Abraham Pais

Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics