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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

How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

By William Byers

How to Read Historical Mathematics

By Benjamin Wardhaugh

Mathematics in Western Culture

By Morris Kline

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity

By Luke Hodgkin (King's College, London)

Edmund Husserl's "Origin of Geometry": An Introduction

By Jacques Derrida, John P. Leavey

Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing the Secrets of Numbers

By Clawson, Calvin C.

Frege on Absolute and Relative Truth: An Introduction to the Practice of Interpreting Philosophical Texts

By U. Pardey

Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic

By Douglas Patterson, Michael Beaney

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

By Gregory Landini, Michael Beaney

New Waves in Philosophical Logic

By G. Restall, G. Russell

Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories

By John Allen Paulos

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.)

The Great Philosophers: Russell

By Ray Monk

Numbers: 10 Things You Should Know

By Colin Stuart

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

By Cobb, Paul, Bauersfeld, Heinrich

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

By John L. Casti