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

By Sfard, Anna

The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics

By Danielsson, Ulf, Fiolhais, Carlos

Philosophy of Mathematics 2ed: Selected Readings

By Benacerraf, Paul

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing)

By Lave

How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics (New Scientist Instant Expert)

By New Scientist

Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method

By Hilary Putnam

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

By Charles Seife

Niels Bohr's Times

By Abraham Pais

Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics

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

By Rob Eastaway

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

By Keith Houston

Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

By George Musser

Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

By George G. Szpiro

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

By Professor Oliver Johnson

Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond

By David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee

Principles of Mathematics

By Bertrand Russell

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

By Matt Ridley

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...

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

There's Something About Goedel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem

By Francesco Berto (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis

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

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)

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times

By Kline, Morris

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

By Raymond M. Smullyan

Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed Systems

By Jon Barwise, Jerry Seligman

Mathematics as a Science of Patterns

By Michael D. Resnik (University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science

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

Probability

By Darrell P. Rowbottom