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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math

by Alex Bellos

Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race,...


The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

by Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot

Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better still it...


A Wealth of Numbers

by Benjamin Wardhaugh

Despite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlightening anthology--the...


Numbers and Other Math Ideas Come Alive

by Theoni Pappas

Most people don’t think about numbers, or take them for granted. For the average person numbers are looked upon as cold, clinical, inanimate objects. Math ideas are viewed as something to get a job done or...


Mathematical Footprints: Discovering Mathematics Everywhere

by Theoni Pappas

MATHEMATICAL FOOTPRINTS takes a creative look at the role mathematics has played since prehistoric times, and will play in the future, and uncovers mathematics where you least expect to find it from its many...


Math Stuff

by Theoni Pappas

Whether it's stuff in your kitchen or garden, stuff that powers your car or your body, stuff that helps you work, communicate or play, or stuff that you've never heard of you can bet that mathematics is there....


Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs

by Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson & Philip J. Davis

Fascinating Mathematical People is a collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the twentieth century, many still active. The candid portraits...