| Books that will teach you a little or a lot of interesting things about maths without assuming you remember all your trigonometry. | ||
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| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dov...
by Edwin Abbott £2.00 A great, fun book for building up intuitions about higher-dimensional spaces. Buy it for all the 10-year-olds you know. | Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introductio...
by F. William Lawvere A nice book about the ideas behind abstract maths. The authors tested it on schoolkids and bits of their dialogue are included. | A Tour of the Calculus
by David Berlinski A purple paean to calculus; its history, the main ideas and why it's all splendid. In places, very wryly amusing. |
Maths for Non-Mathematicians
