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HS Mathematics class library

Description: Books for a high school mathematics classroom library.....

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,276 members

1,327 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kday_working, Jennine
Explanations: kday_working: A popular novel about a boy with Asperger's syndrome, who is fascinated with math

2

Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas Hofstadter

13,619 members

130 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kday_working, voster

3

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott

9,739 members

182 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kday_working, voster

4

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

8,561 members

196 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kday_working, voster

5

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

5,968 members

75 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kday_working, voster

6

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis

2,296 members

103 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kday_working, voster

7

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

by Paul Hoffman

1,930 members

26 reviews

4

2 Members: kday_working, voster

8

The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

1,907 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kday_working, cej1027

9

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

by Robert Kanigel

1,109 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kday_working, voster

10

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg

825 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kday_working, Ebee.enh

11

Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man

by John Allen Paulos

703 members

5 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kday_working, voster

12

To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite

357 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kday_working, voster

13

Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick

6,945 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

14

Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

4,772 members

64 reviews

4.1

Member: kday_working

15

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly

4,571 members

191 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

16

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,212 members

218 reviews

4

Member: kday_working

17

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

2,457 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: kday_working

18

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

by John Allen Paulos

2,182 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: kday_working

19

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

by George Pólya

1,961 members

15 reviews

4

Member: kday_working

20

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

by David Foster Wallace

1,518 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

21

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

by Margot Lee Shetterly

1,423 members

29 reviews

4.1

Member: kday_working

22

A Mathematician's Apology

1,374 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: kday_working

23

A History of Pi

by Petr Beckmann

1,234 members

17 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kday_working

24

Alex's Adventures in Numberland

1,220 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

25

Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

by William Dunham

1,085 members

13 reviews

4

Member: kday_working

26

1,049 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

27

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

by John Allen Paulos

1,011 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

28

e: The Story of a Number

997 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kday_working

29

Men of Mathematics

966 members

16 reviews

4

Member: kday_working

30

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

by John Derbyshire

924 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: kday_working

31

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

by Stephen Hawking

922 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

32

The Mathematical Experience

by Philip J. Davis

904 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: kday_working

33

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1

by Paul J. Nahin

898 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kday_working

34

The Indian Clerk

by David Leavitt

755 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: kday_working

35

Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

by Morris Kline

682 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

36

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

666 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kday_working

37

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

594 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kday_working

38

In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World

580 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

39

The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity

by Amir D. Aczel

547 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kday_working

40

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

529 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: kday_working

41

Concepts of Modern Mathematics

485 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

42

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel

484 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

43

The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty

467 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

44

The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems

by Martin Gardner

463 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: kday_working

45

Why Do Buses Come in Threes?

by Rob Eastaway

460 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kday_working

46

Is God a Mathematician?

455 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

47

Letters to a Young Mathematician

428 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

48

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

by Morris Kline

402 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

49

The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible

by Keith Devlin

401 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: kday_working

50

Mathematicians Are People, Too, Volume 1

by Dale Seymour Publications

375 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

51

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

by Eugenia Cheng

364 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kday_working

52

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

by Amir R. Alexander

355 members

8 reviews

4

Member: kday_working

53

The Book of Numbers

by John H. Conway

336 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: kday_working

54

Surreal Numbers

by Donald E. Knuth

307 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: kday_working

55

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

by Cédric Villani

271 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kday_working

56

by Paul Lockhart

244 members

1 review

3.8

Member: kday_working

57

The Number Mysteries: A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life

by Marcus Du Sautoy

244 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kday_working

58

Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems

239 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kday_working

59

1089 and All That - A Journey into Mathematics

by David Acheson

201 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kday_working

60

Euler: The Master of Us All

by William Dunham

185 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: kday_working

61

Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving

by Sanjoy Mahajan

172 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: kday_working

62

Elementary Number Theory

by David M. Burton

171 members

½ 3.4

Member: kday_working

63

Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology

by David S. Richeson

167 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: kday_working

64

Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project

by Robert P. Moses

165 members

2 reviews

4

Member: kday_working

65

How Long Is a Piece of String?: More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

by Rob Eastaway

163 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kday_working

66

by Kjartan Poskitt

159 members

4.1

Member: kday_working

67

Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway

by Siobhan Roberts

135 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: kday_working

68

The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math

by Steven Strogatz

116 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kday_working

69

Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number

by Alfred S. Posamentier

87 members

4 reviews

3

Member: kday_working

70

The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal

by James Franklin

87 members

½ 2.6

Member: kday_working

71

Proofs Without Words, Vol. 1: Exercises in Visual Thinking

by Roger B. Nelsen

80 members

1 review

4

Member: kday_working

72

Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics

by George F. Simmons

52 members

½ 4.5

Member: kday_working

73

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013

by Mircea Pitici

44 members

2.8

Member: kday_working

74

Bridging the Gap to University Mathematics

by Edward Hurst

30 members

Member: kday_working

75

Math Girls 2: Fermat's Last Theorem (Volume 2)

by Hiroshi Yuki

24 members

Member: kday_working

76

Math Girls 3: Godel's Incompleteness Theorems: Volume 3

by Hiroshi Yuki

11 members

Member: kday_working

77

Math Girls Talk About Equations & Graphs: Volume 1

by Hiroshi Yuki

9 members

Member: kday_working

78

Math Girls Manga (Math Girls)

by Hiroshi Yuki

7 members

3

Member: kday_working

79

Math Girls Talk About Trigonometry: Volume 3

by Hiroshi Yuki

7 members

Member: kday_working

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