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• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos (1,018 copies)
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos (489 copies)
• Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart (383 copies)
• The Mathematical Tourist: Snapshots of Modern Mathematics by Ivars Peterson (308 copies)
• Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben (247 copies)
• Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers (202 copies)
• The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved… by Keith Devlin (195 copies)
• Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart (173 copies)
• The Joy of Mathematics by Theoni Pappas (167 copies)
• Why Do Buses Come in Threes? by Rob Eastaway (154 copies)
• Five Golden Rules : Great Theories of 20th-Century… by John L. Casti (143 copies)
• The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical… by Ian Stewart (129 copies)
• The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible by Keith J. Devlin (124 copies)
• Mathematics by David Bergamini (111 copies)
• Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise by Ivars Peterson (106 copies)
• From Here to Infinity by Ian Stewart (97 copies)
• Bridges to Infinity: The Human side of Mathematics by Michael Guillen (89 copies)
• Poetry of the Universe by Robert Osserman (77 copies)
• Mathematics: A Human Endeavor (3rd Edition) by Harold R. Jacobs (75 copies)
• Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of… by George G. Szpiro (73 copies)
• 200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and… by A.K. Dewdney (72 copies)
• The Problems of Mathematics by Ian Stewart (69 copies)
• More Joy of Mathematics: Exploring Mathematics All Around… by Theoni Pappas (66 copies)
• Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other… by John L. Casti (66 copies)
• How it works: how math works (How It Works) by Carol Vorderman (64 copies)
• Introducing Mathematics by Ziauddin Sardar (57 copies)
• 1089 and All That - A Journey into Mathematics by David Acheson (46 copies)
• Playing with Infinity by Rózsa Péter (43 copies)
• E=MC2: The Great Ideas that Shaped Our World by Pete Moore (43 copies)
• Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in… by George G. Szpiro (43 copies)
• Mathematics and Logic by Mark Kac (42 copies)
• Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in… by Robert B. Banks (42 copies)
• The Magic of Mathematics: Discovering the Spell of… by Theoni Pappas (42 copies)
• The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics by Edna Ernestine Kramer (41 copies)
• Mathematical Snapshots by Hugo Steinhaus (40 copies)
• Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers by Adam Spencer (38 copies)
• The Gentle Art of Mathematics by Dan Pedoe (38 copies)
• The New Mathematics by Irving Adler (37 copies)
• The Complete How To Figure It: Using Math in Everyday Life by Darrell Huff (35 copies)
• The Pleasures of Counting by T. W. Körner (34 copies)
• The road to Infinity by Isaac Asimov (32 copies)
• Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It… by Mark Ryan (28 copies)
• Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing the Secrets of Numbers by Calvin C. Clawson (28 copies)
• Mathematical Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of… by J. L. Casti (28 copies)
• Life by the Numbers by Keith J. Devlin (26 copies)
• Everyday Math Demystified by Stan Gibilisco (24 copies)
• How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical… by Sherman K. Stein (24 copies)
• Mathematical Journeys (Wiley-Interscience Publication) by Peter D. Schumer (24 copies)
• Mathematics: The Man-Made Universe by Sherman K. Stein (24 copies)
• Mathematics made difficult by Carl E Linderholm (21 copies)

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