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The best books on math and statistics, as recommended by some of the most eminent academics and public figures in the field. Reading lists on subjects including risk and probabilities, the beauty of math, quantum theory, and the history of mathematics.

For a general introduction to the field, why not look at our book selections on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics by Dana Mackenzie, or The Beauty of Maths by Marcus du Sautoy? You could then dig deeper into the history of this wonderful discipline, or the best ways to teach it.

If your interest lies more in statistics and modelling, you'll enjoy our interviews on Statistics and Risk with David Spiegelhalter, Statistics Books with Andrew Gelman, and Risk Management Books with Graciela Chichilnisky.

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    Favourite Maths Books, especially Geometry, recommended by David Acheson

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    Favourite Maths Books - Teach Yourself Geometry by Paul Abbott

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    Teach Yourself Geometry
    by Paul Abbott

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    Favourite Maths Books - Playing with Infinity by Rozsa Peter

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    Playing with Infinity
    by Rozsa Peter

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    Favourite Maths Books - Essays in the History of Mechanics by Clifford Truesdell

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    Essays in the History of Mechanics
    by Clifford Truesdell

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    Favourite Maths Books - Why do Buses Come in Threes? by Jeremy Wyndham & Rob Eastaway

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    Why do Buses Come in Threes?
    by Jeremy Wyndham & Rob Eastaway

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    Favourite Maths Books - The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry by David Wells

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    The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry
    by David Wells

Favourite Maths Books, especially Geometry, recommended by David Acheson

From Thales’s theorem to the Banach-Tarski paradox, Oxford mathematician David Acheson’s book, The Wonder Book of Geometry, is a lively attempt to bring to life geometry—literally, ‘earth measurement’—and make it accessible to the general public. Here, David recommends some of the books that influenced him, “in the order in which I met them, over a timespan of some 60 years.”

    The best books on Ada Lovelace, recommended by Ursula Martin

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    The best books on Ada Lovelace - In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace by Miranda Seymour

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    In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
    by Miranda Seymour

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    The best books on Ada Lovelace - Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by James Secord

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    Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
    by James Secord

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    The best books on Ada Lovelace - Mathematics in Victorian Britain by Adrian Rice, Raymond Flood & Robin Wilson

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    Mathematics in Victorian Britain
    by Adrian Rice, Raymond Flood & Robin Wilson

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    The best books on Ada Lovelace - The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua

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    The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
    by Sydney Padua

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    The best books on Ada Lovelace - Middlemarch by George Eliot

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    Middlemarch
    by George Eliot

The best books on Ada Lovelace, recommended by Ursula Martin

Ada Lovelace has become an iconic figure for women in science and is often credited with the invention of modern computing. But, as Ursula Martin—mathematician, computer scientist and Lovelace biographer—explains, all of that is a bit overblown. The Lovelace myth obscures the truth about a woman who was certainly a very brilliant mathematician, but who was also often frustrated in her scientific ambitions, in poor health and unhappy.

    The Best Math Books of 2019, recommended by Kit Yates

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    The Best Math Books of 2019 - The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter

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    The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
    by David Spiegelhalter

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    The Best Math Books of 2019 - Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty by Ian Stewart

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    Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
    by Ian Stewart

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    The Best Math Books of 2019 - Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker

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    Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
    by Matt Parker

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    The Best Math Books of 2019 - Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus by Steven Strogatz

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    Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus
    by Steven Strogatz

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    The Best Math Books of 2019 - The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI by Marcus du Sautoy

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    The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
    by Marcus du Sautoy

The Best Math Books of 2019, recommended by Kit Yates

As math becomes increasingly important in our daily lives, eminent mathematicians and statisticians have stepped up to the plate, writing books that are engaging for non-experts—and sometimes even funny. Kit Yates, a mathematical biologist and author of The Math of Life and Death, recommends the best math books of 2019. 

    The best books on Data Science, recommended by Roger D. Peng

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    The best books on Data Science - Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm by Richard Royall

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    Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm
    by Richard Royall

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    The best books on Data Science - Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau

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    Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
    by Nathan Yau

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    The best books on Data Science - Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

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    Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
    by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

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    The best books on Data Science - An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R by Daniela Witten, Gareth James, Robert Tibshirani & Trevor Hastie

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    An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R
    by Daniela Witten, Gareth James, Robert Tibshirani & Trevor Hastie

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    The best books on Data Science - Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work by Nigel Cross

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    Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work
    by Nigel Cross

The best books on Data Science, recommended by Roger D. Peng

From complex techniques only used by academic statisticians, data science has risen to extreme popularity in only a few years. Roger D. Peng, Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University and founder of one of the largest data science online courses, helps us understand this discipline and recommends the five best books to delve into it.

    The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists, recommended by Hadley Wickham

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    The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Gerald Jay Sussman, Harold Abelson & Julie Sussman

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    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    by Gerald Jay Sussman, Harold Abelson & Julie Sussman

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    The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists - The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S. Skiena

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    The Algorithm Design Manual
    by Steven S. Skiena

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    The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists - The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

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    The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
    by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

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    The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists - The Art of Readable Code by Dustin Boswell & Trevor Foucher

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    The Art of Readable Code
    by Dustin Boswell & Trevor Foucher

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    The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists - Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph Bizup & Joseph M. Williams

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    Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
    by Joseph Bizup & Joseph M. Williams

The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists, recommended by Hadley Wickham

Data science is often said to be built on three pillars: domain expertise, statistics, and programming. Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio and creator of many packages for the R programming language, chooses the best books to help aspiring data scientists build solid computer science fundamentals.

    The best books on The History of Mathematics, recommended by Robin Wilson

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    The best books on The History of Mathematics - Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment by Ronald S. Calinger

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    Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
    by Ronald S. Calinger

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    The best books on The History of Mathematics - A Concise History of Mathematics by Dirk S. Struik

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    A Concise History of Mathematics
    by Dirk S. Struik

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    The best books on The History of Mathematics - The History of Mathematics: A Reader by Jeremy Gray & John Fauvel

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    The History of Mathematics: A Reader
    by Jeremy Gray & John Fauvel

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    The best books on The History of Mathematics - The Mathematical Pamphlets of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Related Pieces by Charles Dodgson

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    The Mathematical Pamphlets of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Related Pieces
    by Charles Dodgson

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    The best books on The History of Mathematics - Mathematical Models by H. M. Cundy and A. P. Rollett.

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    Mathematical Models
    by H. M. Cundy and A. P. Rollett.

The best books on The History of Mathematics, recommended by Robin Wilson

Why should we be interested in the history of mathematics? Mathematics, like painting, music, literature, has a long history, says Robin Wilson. Indeed, it’s longer than most, since the first writing is believed to be numerical. Mathematics is also multicultural, with its historical origins in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

    The best books on Applied Mathematics, recommended by Nick Higham

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    The best books on Applied Mathematics - X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life by John A. Adam

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    X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life
    by John A. Adam

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    The best books on Applied Mathematics - In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation by William J. Cook

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    In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
    by William J. Cook

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    The best books on Applied Mathematics - Who's #1?: The Science of Rating and Ranking by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer

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    Who's #1?: The Science of Rating and Ranking
    by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer

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    The best books on Applied Mathematics - 50 Visions of Mathematics by Sam Parc

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    50 Visions of Mathematics
    by Sam Parc

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    The best books on Applied Mathematics - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart

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    In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
    by Ian Stewart

The best books on Applied Mathematics, recommended by Nick Higham

It can be used to understand everything from bedbugs to traffic jams and helps us take photos and fly planes. Maths professor and author Nick Higham picks five books that show the many wonders of applied maths.

    The best books on Physics and Financial Markets, recommended by James Owen Weatherall

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    The best books on Physics and Financial Markets - The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

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    The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
    by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

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    The best books on Physics and Financial Markets - Foundations of Economic Analysis by Paul A. Samuelson

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    Foundations of Economic Analysis
    by Paul A. Samuelson

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    The best books on Physics and Financial Markets - Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems by Didier Sornette

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    Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
    by Didier Sornette

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    The best books on Physics and Financial Markets - Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System by Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf

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    Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System
    by Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf

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    The best books on Physics and Financial Markets - The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin

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    The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
    by Lee Smolin

The best books on Physics and Financial Markets, recommended by James Owen Weatherall

Blaming “the quants” for the 2008 financial crisis is simplistic and short-sighted, says the author of The Physics of Wall Street. He picks five books showing the contribution physics has made to understanding financial markets.

    The best books on Teaching Maths, recommended by Alf Coles

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    The best books on Teaching Maths - Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos

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    Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
    by Imre Lakatos

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    The best books on Teaching Maths - The Common Sense of Teaching Mathematics by Caleb Gattegno

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    The Common Sense of Teaching Mathematics
    by Caleb Gattegno

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    The best books on Teaching Maths - Calculus by and for Young People by Donald Cohen

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    Calculus by and for Young People
    by Donald Cohen

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    The best books on Teaching Maths - Teaching Mathematics: Towards a Sound Alternative by Brent Davis

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    Teaching Mathematics: Towards a Sound Alternative
    by Brent Davis

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    The best books on Teaching Maths - Starting Points for Teaching Mathematics in Middle and Secondary Schools by Banwell & Saunders and Tahta

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    Starting Points for Teaching Mathematics in Middle and Secondary Schools
    by Banwell & Saunders and Tahta

The best books on Teaching Maths, recommended by Alf Coles

What is the best way to teach maths? Maths teacher and author Alf Coles recommends books that offer some clues.

    The best books on Quantum Theory, recommended by Vlatko Vedral

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    The best books on Quantum Theory - Quantum Physics by Alastair Rae

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    Quantum Physics
    by Alastair Rae

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    The best books on Quantum Theory - The Ghost in the Atom by Paul Davies

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    The Ghost in the Atom
    by Paul Davies

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    The best books on Quantum Theory - What is life? by Erwin Shroedinger

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    What is life?
    by Erwin Shroedinger

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    The best books on Quantum Theory - The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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    The Selfish Gene
    by Richard Dawkins

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    The best books on Quantum Theory - The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

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    The Evolution of Cooperation
    by Robert Axelrod

The best books on Quantum Theory, recommended by Vlatko Vedral

The professor of quantum information theory at Oxford tells us about books that successfully popularise quantum physics and the science of complex systems. Look, no equations!

    The best books on Maths, recommended by Alex Bellos

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    The best books on Maths - The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan

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    The Man Who Counted
    by Malba Tahan

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    The best books on Maths - The Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah

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    The Universal History of Numbers
    by Georges Ifrah

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    The best books on Maths - Zero by Charles Seife

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    Zero
    by Charles Seife

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    The best books on Maths - The History of Pi by Petr Beckmann

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    The History of Pi
    by Petr Beckmann

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    The best books on Maths - The Triumph of Numbers by I B Cohen

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    The Triumph of Numbers
    by I B Cohen

The best books on Maths, recommended by Alex Bellos

The author of Alex’s Adventures in Numberland tells us about popular attempts to explain the history of counting and numbers. He chooses the best books to read about maths.

    The best books on The Beauty of Maths, recommended by Marcus du Sautoy

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    The best books on The Beauty of Maths - A Mathematician’s Apology by G H Hardy

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    A Mathematician’s Apology
    by G H Hardy

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    The best books on The Beauty of Maths - A Disappearing Number by Simon McBurney

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    A Disappearing Number
    by Simon McBurney

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    The best books on The Beauty of Maths - One, Two, Three…Infinity by George Gamow

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    One, Two, Three…Infinity
    by George Gamow

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    The best books on The Beauty of Maths - The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse

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    The Glass Bead Game
    by Herman Hesse

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    The best books on The Beauty of Maths - Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou

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    Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
    by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou

The best books on The Beauty of Maths, recommended by Marcus du Sautoy

The Oxford professor tells us how he finds beauty in maths, and why his ultimate aim is to become a master of the glass bead game.

    The best books on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics, recommended by Dana Mackenzie

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    The best books on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics - Induction and Analogy in Mathematics by George Polya

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    Induction and Analogy in Mathematics
    by George Polya

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    The best books on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics - Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham

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    Magical Mathematics
    by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham

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    The best books on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics - Indra's Pearls by Caroline Series and David Wright & David Mumford

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    Indra's Pearls
    by Caroline Series and David Wright & David Mumford

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    The best books on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics - Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers by Martin Gardner

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    Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers
    by Martin Gardner

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    The best books on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics - The Dot and the Line by Norton Juster

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    The Dot and the Line
    by Norton Juster

The best books on The Beauty and Fun of Mathematics, recommended by Dana Mackenzie

From mathematical card tricks to an arrangement of interlocking pentagons previously thought impossible, the maths writer explains why solutions to maths problems can be as beautiful as paintings or sculpture

    The best books on Statistics and Risk, recommended by David Spiegelhalter

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    The best books on Statistics and Risk - The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow

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    The Drunkard's Walk
    by Leonard Mlodinow

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    The best books on Statistics and Risk - Dicing with Death by Stephen Senn

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    Dicing with Death
    by Stephen Senn

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    The best books on Statistics and Risk - How Risky Is It, Really? by David Ropeik

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    How Risky Is It, Really?
    by David Ropeik

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    The best books on Statistics and Risk - Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best

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    Damned Lies and Statistics
    by Joel Best

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    The best books on Statistics and Risk - Do You Feel Lucky? by Kjartan Poskitt

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    Do You Feel Lucky?
    by Kjartan Poskitt

The best books on Statistics and Risk, recommended by David Spiegelhalter

Every statistic is the result of someone’s work, and we’d do well to ask ourselves why it was created. That way, says the statistician, we have a better chance of working out when dangers are being overstated and data misused

    The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman

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    The best books on Statistics - The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James

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    The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
    by Bill James

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    The best books on Statistics - Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky

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    Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
    by Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky

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    The best books on Statistics - How Animals Work by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

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    How Animals Work
    by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

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    The best books on Statistics - The Honest Rainmaker by A J Liebling

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    The Honest Rainmaker
    by A J Liebling

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    The best books on Statistics - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

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    How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
    by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman

Award-winning statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman says that uncertainty is an important part of life, and recognition of that uncertainty is itself an important step. He picks the best books on statistics.

    The best books on Risk Management, recommended by Graciela Chichilnisky

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    The best books on Risk Management - Catastrophe by Richard A Posner

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    Catastrophe
    by Richard A Posner

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    The best books on Risk Management - Optimal Statistical Decisions by Morris H DeGroot

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    Optimal Statistical Decisions
    by Morris H DeGroot

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    The best books on Risk Management - The Foundations of Statistics by Leonard J Savage

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    The Foundations of Statistics
    by Leonard J Savage

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    The best books on Risk Management - Essays in the Theory of Risk-Bearing by Kenneth J Arrow

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    Essays in the Theory of Risk-Bearing
    by Kenneth J Arrow

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    The best books on Risk Management - Inequalities for Stochastic Processes by Lester E Dubins and Leonard J Savage

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    Inequalities for Stochastic Processes
    by Lester E Dubins and Leonard J Savage

The best books on Risk Management, recommended by Graciela Chichilnisky

Former UNESCO Professor of Maths and Economics at Columbia University selects five intriguing books on catastophic risks, making statistical decisions and reasoned gambling

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