Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Great Mathematical Books

  • Journey Through Genius, by William Dunham © 1990.

  • The Mathematical Universe, by William Dunham © 1994.

  • Proofs Without Words II, by Roger B. Nelsen © 2000.

  • Proofs Without Words, by Roger B. Nelsen © 1993.

  • Fermat's Last Theorem, by Simon Singh © 1997.

  • The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes, by David Darling © 2004.

  • The Mathematics of Ciphers: Number Theory and RSA Cryptography, by S. C. Coutinho © 1998.

  • Axiomatic Set Theory, by Patrick Suppes © 1972.

  • Abel's Proof, by Peter Pesic © 2003.

  • Hilbert's Tenth Problem, by Yuri V. Matiyasevich © 1996.

  • Prime Numbers, by David Wells © 2005.
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