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• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos (1,253 copies)
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos (602 copies)
• Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart (465 copies)
• The Mathematical Tourist: Snapshots of Modern Mathematics by Ivars Peterson (359 copies)
• Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben (319 copies)
• Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers (276 copies)
• The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved… by Keith J. Devlin (238 copies)
• The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around… by Theoni Pappas (216 copies)
• Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart (210 copies)
• Why Do Buses Come in Threes? by Rob Eastaway (197 copies)
• The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible by Keith Devlin (165 copies)
• Five Golden Rules : Great Theories of 20th-Century… by John Casti (163 copies)
• The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical… by Ian Stewart (154 copies)
• LIFE Science Library: Mathematics by David Bergamini (152 copies)
• Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise by Ivars Peterson (134 copies)
• From Here to Infinity by Ian Stewart (117 copies)
• Bridges to Infinity: The Human side of Mathematics by Guillen (109 copies)
• How it works: how math works by Carol Vorderman (104 copies)
• Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One… by George G. Szpiro (98 copies)
• Poetry of the Universe by Robert Osserman (93 copies)
• 200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and… by A. K. Dewdney (93 copies)
• Mathematics: A Human Endeavor (3rd Edition) by Harold R. Jacobs (92 copies)
• The Problems of Mathematics (OPUS) by Ian Stewart (83 copies)
• More Joy of Mathematics: Exploring Mathematics All Around… by Theoni Pappas (79 copies)
• Introducing Mathematics (Introducing...(Totem)) by Ziauddin Sardar (74 copies)
• Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other… by John L. Casti (72 copies)
• E=MC2: The Great Ideas that Shaped Our World by Pete Moore (71 copies)
• The Pleasures of Counting by T. W. Körner (68 copies)
• 1089 and All That - A Journey into Mathematics by David Acheson (65 copies)
• Playing with Infinity by Rózsa Péter (62 copies)
• Mathematics and Logic by Mark Kac (56 copies)
• The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics by Edna Ernestine Kramer (55 copies)
• Mathematical Snapshots by Hugo Steinhaus (54 copies)
• Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in… by George G. Szpiro (53 copies)
• Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in… by Robert B. Banks (53 copies)
• Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing the Secrets of Numbers by Calvin C. Clawson (53 copies)
• Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers by Adam Spencer (49 copies)
• The Gentle Art of Mathematics by Dan Pedoe (48 copies)
• The Magic of Mathematics: Discovering the Spell of… by Theoni Pappas (47 copies)
• The Complete How To Figure It: Using Math in Everyday Life by Darrell Huff (46 copies)
• The New Mathematics by Irving Adler (45 copies)
• The road to Infinity by Isaac Asimov (42 copies)
• Life by the Numbers by Keith Devlin (40 copies)
• Mathematical Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of… by J. L. Casti (36 copies)
• Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It… by Mark Ryan (35 copies)
• Nets, Puzzles and Postmen: An Exploration of Mathematical… by Peter M Higgins (33 copies)
• How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical… by Sherman K. Stein (31 copies)
• Mathematical Journeys (Wiley-Interscience Publication) by Peter D. Schumer (28 copies)
• Mathematics made difficult by Carl E Linderholm (28 copies)
• Everyday Math Demystified by Stan Gibilisco (27 copies)

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