Books Students plan to review this semester.
- Riley Barker, e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
- James Bennette, African Mathematics From Bones to Computers by Abdul Karim Bangura
- Steve Bosze, Number Sense: how the mind creates mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene
- Chad Campbell, To infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite by Eli Maor/li>
- Elizabeth Cuyler, Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment, by Ronald Calinger
- Matthew Enderle, Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker About God by Donald Adamson
- Eric Kimberly, How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years by Peter S. Rudman
- Sarah McIntyre, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
- Levi Malone, The History of Mathematics: Algebra, Sets, Symbols & The Language of Thought by John Tabak
- Mason Middleton,
- Adam Melchin, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, by Jordan Ellenberg
- Jason Nagaoka, Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas by David Bressoud
- A.J. Perea, Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Osman Quinteros, Beautiful Geometry, by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost>
- Rayna Smith, How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng
- Janelle Stelle, A Mathematician's Apology, by G.H. Hardy
- Merri Stilman, Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma
- Briana Toelke, The Joy of X, by Steven Strogatz
- Gisselle Tosta, The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths? by Alberto A. Martínez
- Jenny Truong, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure Book, by Cédric Villani
- Julia West, Euler: The Master of Us All by William Dunham
Books Reviewed by Frank's Students in Past Terms
- "Infinite Powers", by Steven Strogatz
- "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics" by Liping Ma
- "The History of Mathematics: Algebra, Sets, Symbols & The Language of Thought" by John Tabak
- "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
- "To infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite" by Eli Maor
- "Fermat’s Enigma" by Simon Singh
- "Taming the infinite", by Ian Stewart
- "The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society" By Elisabetta Strickland
- "Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra" by M. B. W. Tent
- "Euclid's Window" by Leonard Mlodinow
- "An Imaginary Tale" by Paul J. Nahin
- "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges
- "How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years" by Peter S. Rudman
- "The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths" by Alberto A. Martínez
- "Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality" by Edward Frenkel
- "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" by David Foster Wallace.
- "Infinitesimal; how a dangerous Mathematical Theory shaped the modern world" by Amir Alexander.
- "A Mathematician's Apology" by GH Hardy.
- "Flatland", by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
- "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shutterly.
- "A History of Chinese Mathematics," by Jean-Claude Nartzloff, ISBN10: 3-540-33782-2.
- "The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics" by Stanislas Dehaene.
- "Riemann Hypothesis" by Karl Sabbagh.
- "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nassar.
- "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" by Paul Hoffman.
- "e The Story of a Number" By Eli Maor.
Some additional Suggestions. *:=are recommended as interesting read for non-mathematicians
- "Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics", by Talitha Williams
- "Beautiful Geometry", by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost
- * Cakes, Custard and Category Theory, by Eugenia Cheng
- Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century, by Frank Swetz
- Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics, by David Reimer
- The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths, by Alberto A. Martínez
- Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers, by Amir D. Aczel
- * How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, by Jordan Ellenberg
- * How To Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng
- The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, by Robert Kanigel
- My Search for Ramanujan, by Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel
- Prime Mystery: The Life and Mathematics of Sophie Germain, by Dora E. Musielak
- The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, by Simon Singh
- The Joy of X, by Steven Strogatz
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