Math 170
List of Books
Here are some books you can read for your essay and presentation. But feel free to look for others that would interest you more. Make sure you email me or come talk to me about the book you are reading.
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of "i" [the square root of minus one] (Paperback)
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics (Paperback)
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematics
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci
Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (95 Edition)
How to Lie with Statistics
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem was Solved
Life by the Numbers
Mathematics: The New Golden Age: Keith Devlin: Books
e: The Story of a Number
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Compute...
The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Of Our Time
Godel's Proof (Hardcover)
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Fermat's Last Theorem
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
Prisoner's Dilemma: William Poundstone: Books
Symmetry: Mario Livio: Books
Mathematics, Art, Technology and Cinema
Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy
The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Do...
Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions
Ingenuity in Mathematics (New Mathematical Library): Ross Honsberger: Books
How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning: Sherman K. Stein: Books
The Man Who Counted
A History of Pi
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics: William Dunham: Books
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number: Mario Livio: Books
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
To Infinity and Beyond
Gauss: Titan of Science