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Mathematics Reading List

These are a few titles from Cambridge University's suggested reading list. Some of them you may find easily, others you may need to find in a larger library. Don't forget you have the chance to access the UCL library for a week in July and you'll definitely find them there.   

 

Mathematics: a very short introduction Timothy Gowers (OUP, 2002)

Game, Set and Math. I. Stewart (Penguin, 1997)

Alan Turing, the Enigma A. Hodges (Vintage, 1992)

The Pleasures of Counting T.W. K¨orner (CUP, 1996)

What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences B. Cipra (AMS, 1993, ’94, ’96,
’99, ’02)

The Mathematical Experience P.J. Davis & R. Hersh (Penguin, 1990)

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers D.Wells (Penguin,
1997)

Chaos J. Gleick (Minerva/Random House, 1997)

A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics Martin Liebeck (Chapman& Hall/CRC
Mathematics)