Some Interesting Books

• Abbott: Flatland and The Annotated Flatland
• Aigner and Ziegler: Proofs from the Book
• Ball and Coxeter: Mathematical Recreations and Essays
• Banchoff: Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions
• Barnsley: Fractals Everywhere
• Beckmann: A History of Pi
• Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy: Winning Ways, Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
• Berlekamp and Rodgers: The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner
• Berlinghoff and Gouvea: Math Through the Ages
• Burger: Sphereland
• Coffin: The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections
• COMAP: For All Practical Purposes
• Conway: On Numbers and Games
• Conway and Guy: The Book of Numbers
• Cook: The Curves of Life
• Courant and Robbins: What is Mathematics?
• Cundy and Rollett: Mathematical Models
• Devlin: Books by Keith Devlin, such as Mathematics: The Science of Patterns, and The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time
• Dewdney: Books by A.K. Dewdney, such as A Mathematical Mystery Tour and The Planiverse
• Dorrie: 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics: Their History and Solution
• Dunham: Journey Through Genius
• Edmondson: A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller
• Eves: Books by Eves, such as In Mathematical Circles
• Frederickson: Dissections: Plane and Fancy
• Gamow: Mr. Tompkins in Paperback
• Gardner: Books by Martin Gardner, especially collections of his articles from Scientific American, such as The Colossal Book of Mathematics
• Ghyka: The Geometry of Art and Life
• Grunbaum and Shephard: Tilings and Patterns: An Introduction
• Guy, Woodrow, and Watkins: The Lighter Side of Mathematics : Proceedings of the Eugešne Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and its History
• Hardy: A Mathematician's Apology
• Hargittai and Hargittai: Symmetry: A Unifying Concept
• Havil: Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant
• Heath: Euclid's Elements, Books 1-2, Books 3-9, Books 10-13
• Hersh: The Mathematical Experience
• Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen: Geometry and the Imagination
• Hildebrandt and Tromba: Mathematics and Optimal Form
• Hilton, Holton, and Pedersen: Mathematical Reflections
• Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach, Metamagical Themas
• Holden: Shapes, Space, and Symmetry
• Honsberger: Books by Honsberger, such as Ingenuity in Mathematics
• Kappraff: Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science
• Kasner, et al: Mathematics and the Imagination
• Klarner: Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner
• Klein: Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis, Geometry
• Kline: Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
• Knuth: Surreal Numbers
• Lakatos: Proofs and Refutations
• Livio: The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
• Lundy: Sacred Geometry
• Mandelbrot: The Fractal Geometry of Nature
• Maor: e: The Story of a Number, To Infinity and Beyond, Trigonometric Delights
• Morrison and Morrison: Powers of Ten
• Mumford, Series, and Wright: Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein
• Nahin: An Imaginary Tale
• Nelson: Proofs Without Words, Proofs Without Words II
• Newman: The World of Mathematics
• Olds, Lax, and Davidoff: The Geometry of Numbers
• Paulos: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
• Pedoe: The Gentle Art of Mathematics, Geometry and the Visual Arts
• Peitgen: Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems
• Peitgen, et al: Chaos and Fractals
• Peterson: Books by Ivars Peterson, such as The Mathematical Tourist
• Polster: The Mathematics of Juggling
• Polya: How to Solve It
• Rademacher and Toeplitz: The Enjoyment of Mathematics
• Rota: Indiscrete Thoughts
• Schattschneider: M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry
• Seife: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
• Senechal and Fleck: Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach
• Smullyan: Books by Raymond Smullyan, such as What is the Name of this Book?
• Steinhaus: Mathematical Snapshots
• Stewart: Books by Ian Stewart, such as Nature's Numbers
• Sutton: Platonic and Archimedean Solids
• Wells: The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry, The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics, The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers
• Books by Magnus Wenninger, such as: Polyhedron Models
• Weyl: Symmetry
• Wilson and Gray: Mathematical Conversations - Selections from The Mathematical Intelligencer
• Wolfe and Rodgers: Puzzlers' Tribute