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The Top 12 Books About Mathematics
1. The Mathematics of Gambling – Edward O. Thorp 2. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity – Steven Strogatz 3. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number – Mario Livio 4.
- The Mathematics of Gambling – Edward O. Thorp
- The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity – Steven Strogatz
- The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number – Mario Livio
- Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem – Simon Singh
- Prisoner’s Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb – William Poundstone
- The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data – David Spiegelhalter
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea – Charles Seife
- A History of Pi -Petr Beckmann
- Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics from the First Numbers to Chaos Theory – Ian Stewart
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth – Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
- Gödel’s Proof – Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman
- Introduction to Algorithms – Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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