Books with Mathematical Themes

Books with Mathematical Themes Stories  The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World, A. K. Dewdney, 1984  The Shape of Space, Jeffrey R. Weeks, 2002  Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe, by Dionys Burger, 1965  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott, (~1900) History of the development of mathematical ideas  A History of Mathematics, Carl B. Boyer and Uta C. Merzbach, 1991  The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development, Carl B. Boyer, 1949  Mathematics and the Physical World, Morris Kline, 1959  Mathematics in Western Culture, Morris Kline, 1953 History of special numbers  An Imaginary Tale: The Story of 1 , Paul J. Nahin  e: The Story of a Number, Eli Maor  The Joy of , David Blatner  To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite, Eli Maor  Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife Mathematical ideas  Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Bertrand Russell  Naïve Set Theory, Paul R. Halmos The Nature of Time, Space, and the Universe  A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking  Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick  Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics of Chaos, Ian Stewart  Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter  The Cartoon History of the Universe, Larry Gonick  The Cartoon History of Time: A Beginner's Guide to Quantum Physics, Relativity, and the Beginning of the Universe, Kate Charlesworth and John Gribbin  The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking Other books (topics vary)  Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project, Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr.  Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy, Lynn A. Steen, editor  Why Flip a Coin? The Art and Science of Good Decisions, H.W. Lewis, 1997  200% of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy, A. K. Dewdney  Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture, Claudia Zaslavsky  African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design, Ron Eglash  Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas, Marcia Ascher  Ethnomathematics: Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education, Arthur B. Powell and Marilyn Frankenstein (editors)  How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff    How to Lie with Charts, Gerald E. Jones The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Larry Gonick The Cartoon Guide to Physics, Larry Gonick