 | Discrete Mathematics for New Technology by R. Garnier
Buy new: £37.04 / Used from: £24.99 A very accessible textbook, good for self-study.
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 | Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.17 An excellent biography of Alan Turing, including his work on cryptography and computability.
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 | Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
Buy new: £5.82 / Used from: £2.28 A nice historical book.
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 | "e", The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
Buy used from: £2.11 Covers the background and uses of e.
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 | Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (Penguin Press Science) by Leonard Mlodinow
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.99 From ancient Greece to string theory!
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 | Geometry by David A. Brannan
Buy new: £25.49 / Used from: £22.99 Covers Euclidean, Affine, Inversive, Hyperbolic, Spherical and Projective Geometry.
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 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: £8.34 / Used from: £5.60 Interesting.
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 | Randomness by DJ Bennett
Buy new: £13.95 / Used from: £14.03 A great little book.
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 | Adventures in Group Theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's Machine and Other Mathematical Toys by David Joyner
Buy used from: £20.92 An exciting approach to group theory.
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 | Fermat's Last Theorem: The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years by Simon Singh
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.99 Fantastic! Great introduction to the role of proof in mathematics.
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 | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 A biography of Paul Erdos.
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 | A Mathematician's Apology (Canto) by G.H. Hardy
Buy new: £9.95 / Used from: £5.83 Good to have from an historical point of view.
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 | A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £0.01 Very moving biography of John Nash, who was awarded the Nobel prize for his work on game theory. Watch the film!
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 | Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg
Buy new: £8.16 / Used from: £6.99 Very good background to the development of statistics and the people involved.
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 | The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around You by Theoni Pappas
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £1.22 Really like this. Great to dip into and find out about the many areas in which mathematics relates to the world.
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 | More Joy of Mathematics by Theoni Pappas
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.33 More of the above.
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 | The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Buy used from: £27.00 Just got this. A monumental book account of our present understanding of the physical universe, and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. Rather challenging to understand!
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 | Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Penguin Mathematics) by Ian Stewart
Buy new: £7.10 / Used from: £3.18 Engaging book about chaos, with some nice pictures!
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 | The Man Who Knew Infinity: Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £4.57 A biography of Ramanujan.
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 | Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved by Robin J. Wilson
Buy used from: £4.20 All about the four-colour theorem (which states that every map can be coloured with just four colours in such a way that neighbouring regions have different colours) and the history of its proof.
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 | An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by G. H. Hardy
Buy new: £24.87 / Used from: £21.00 A Classic Book!
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 | A First Course in Mathematical Analysis by David Alexander Brannan
Buy new: £21.79 / Used from: £29.51 Excellent for self study.
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 | The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters by Marcus du Sautoy
Buy new: £5.60 / Used from: £2.47 Liked this!
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 | Computability and Logic by George S. Boolos
Buy new: £16.56 / Used from: £17.00 Good for self study.
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