Cambridge Maths Reading List

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This list of interesting mathematics books is mainly intended for sixth-formers planning to take a degree
in mathematics.

  1. 1.
    Makers of Mathematics
    by Stuart Hollingdale

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    Russian Childhood
    by Sof'Ia Vasil'Evna Korvin-Krukovskaia Kovalevskaia

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    Alan Turing: The Enigma
    by Andrew Hodges

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    The Man Who Knew Infinity
    by Robert Kanigel

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  5. 5.
    A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
    by G. H. Hardy

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  6. 6.
    Littlewood's Miscellany

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    The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
    by Paul Hoffman

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    Fermat's Last Theorem
    by Simon Singh

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  10. 11.
    Number
    by John McLeish

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    Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers
    by Martin Gardner

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    To Infinity and Beyond
    by Eli Maor

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  14. 15.
    A Mathematical Mosaic: Patterns & Problem Solving
    by Ravi Vakil

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  15. 16.
    Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
    by Timothy Gowers

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  16. 17.
    The Pleasures of Counting
    by T. W. Körner

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  17. 19.
    From Here to Infinity
    by Ian Stewart

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  18. 23.
    Archimedes' Revenge
    by Paul Hoffman

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  19. 24.
    The Mathematical Experience
    by Philip J. & Hersh, Reuben Davis

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  20. 25.
    Beyond Numeracy
    by John Allen Paulos

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    The New Scientist Guide to Chaos

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    Chaos
    by James Gleick

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  24. 31.
    Fractals: Images of Chaos (Penguin Press Science)
    by Hans Lauwerier

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  25. 32.
    Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws
    by John C. Taylor

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  29. 36.
    Was Einstein Right?: Putting General Relativity to the Test
    by Clifford M. Will

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  30. 37.
    The Accidental Universe
    by Paul Davies

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    Advanced Problems in Mathematics

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  32. 39.
    Mathematical Methods for Science Students
    by G. Stephenson

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  34. 43.
    Groups: A Path to Geometry
    by R. P. Burn

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  35. 44.
    Yet Another Introduction to Analysis
    by Victor Bryant

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  37. 46.
    Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics
    by Murray R Spiegel

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    Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition)
    by David Harel

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