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Mathematics Library

There are many wonderful mathematical books that we could house in a library room...a place where people could sit down, relax, and enjoy paging through them (and then move on to the museum shop and purchase a copy, if they so desire).  Please post your favorite books here, so we can start a wish list of sorts.  Book donations would be welcome. Note that the NY Hall of Science contains an operating, lending library of science books, which also serves as a quiet refuge within the museum as a whole.


 

(List is alphabetical by last name of first author listed.)

 


  • Flatland by Edwin Abbott

  • Proofs from THE BOOK by Aigner and Ziegler

  • The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes by Janet Beissinger and Vera Pless

  • Making Mathematics with Needlework by sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel

  • Secrets of Mental Math by Benjamin and Shermer

  • What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences by Cipra and Mackenzie (7 volumes so far)

  • Winning Ways by Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy

  • Islamic Geometric Patterns by Eric Broug

  • The Symmetries of Things by Burgiel, Conway, and Goodman-Strauss

  • 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition of Mathematical Art by Burns and Fathauer

  • What is Mathematics? by Courant and Robbins

  • The Higher Arithmetic: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by H. Davenport

  • Planiverse by A.K. Dewdney

  • The Number Devil by Hans Enzensberger

  • The Mathematical Magpie edited by Clifton Fadiman

  • Fantasia Mathematica by Clifton Fadiman

  • Dissections: Plane and Fancy by Greg Frederickson

  • Hinged Dissections: Swinging and Twisting by Greg Frederickson

  • Books by Martin Gardner (the Sci Am articles are available on CD-ROM)

  • Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner by Gardner and Klarner (and other Gathering for Gardner collections)

  • Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Gonick and Smith

  • Geometry At Work by Catherine Gorini

  • Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Tim Gowers

  • The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Tim Gowers et al.

  • Tilings and Patterns by Grunbaum and Shephard (mentioned by George Hart in Mathematics of Shape Collection. )

  • Crimes and Mathdemeanors by Leith Hathout

  • Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony Rothman, and Freeman Dyson

  • Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert and Cohn-Vassen.  This may also be a good source of exhibit ideas.

  • Mathematical Gems I by Ross Honsberger

  • Mathematical Gems II by Ross Honsberger

  • Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

  • How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

  • Challenging Mathematical Teasers by J. A. H. Hunter

  • The Codebreakers by David Kahn

  • Inversions by Scott Kim

  • Origami Design Secrets by Robert Lang

  • The Fractal Geometry of Nature, by Benoit Mandelbrot

  • Visual Complex Analysis by Tristam Needham

  • The World of Mathematics (4 vols.) by James Newman

  • Mathematics of Choice: Or, How to Count Without Counting by Ivan Niven

  • Maxima and Minima Without Calculus by Ivan Niven and Lester H. Lance

  • A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos

  • The Beauty of Fractals by Peitgen and Richter

  • Role of Mathematics in Science by Max Schiffer and L. Bowden

  • books by Raymond Smullyan

  • Flatterland by Ian Stewart (and other books by Ian Stewart)

  • Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective by Terence Tao

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte

  • Stories about Sets, by N. Ya. Vilenkin

  • Mathematical Mind-Benders by Peter Winkler (among other books by the same author)


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Created by lawrence. Last Modification: Tuesday 25 of August, 2009 08:57:56 EDT by delfino.