Books that are About Maths, But Not About Teaching It

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207 books

The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures by Malba Tahan

The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

Malba Tahan

256 pages • paperback

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A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

461 pages • paperback • 1998

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A History of Mathematical Notations by Florian Cajori

A History of Mathematical Notations

Florian Cajori

818 pages • paperback • 1974

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Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being by George Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez

Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

George Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez

512 pages • paperback • 2000

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Incerto #1

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

316 pages • paperback • 2001

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The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz

The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

Steven Strogatz

336 pages • hardcover • 2012

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The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics by George Gheverghese Joseph

The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics

George Gheverghese Joseph

455 pages • 1991

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Mapmatics by Paulina Rowińska

Mapmatics

Paulina Rowińska

404 pages • digital • 2024

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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa

The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

Kate Kitagawa

320 pages • hardcover • 2023

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Oliver Byrne. Six Books of Euclid by Werner Oechslin

Oliver Byrne. Six Books of Euclid

Werner Oechslin

504 pages • hardcover • 1847

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