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20e-Eeuws Wiskundige: John Forbes Nash Jr., Kurt G del, John Von Neumann, Andrew Wiles, Emmy Noether, Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden by Bron: Wikipedia
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
Charles Babbage and the Engines of Perfection by Bruce Collier
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Differential Games: A Mathematical Theory with Applications to Warfare and Pursuit, Control and Optimization by Rufus Isaacs
ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer by Scott McCartney
Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 5 by Kenjiro Hatacameo
Freud's Megalomania: A Novel by Israel Rosenfield
Game Theory and Related Approaches to Social Behaviour by Martin Shubik
Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Binmore
Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey by R. Duncan Luce
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Introduction to the Theory of Games by J. C. C. McKinsey
John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More by Norman Macraenot in English Common Knowledge
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
The Micro Revolution Revisited by Peter Large
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present by George G. Szpiro
The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge by John L. Casti
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman
Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
The Theory that Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Toward a History of Game Theory (History of Political Economy Annual Supplement) by E. Roy Weintraub
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car by Tim Harford