| Some "pop"-sci books that have inspired me: 1."Uncle Petros & Goldback's Conjecture" & "Logicomix" (both by Apostolos Doxiadis), 2."Chaos" by James Gleick, 3. "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" by Paul Hoffman 4. "A Mathematician's Apology" by G.H. Hardy 5. "The Indian Clerk" (fiction) by David Leavitt (about GH Hardy & Ramanujan) 6. "Genius at Play" by Siobhan Roberts (about John Conway). Normally I stay away from pop-math books with the words "The mind of..." or "Genius" in the title but this is a delightful book. Some "actual" math books:
1. Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos (Strogatz) 2. the Way of Analysis (Strichartz) -- note, this one is
controversial as to its quality as a math book but I really like the presentation style 3. The Nature of Computation (Moore & Mertens) |