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Some Popular Books

Here is a list of some popular books that you might find interesting to read:

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the 20th Century (David Salsburg).

Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists (Joel Best, published by The University of California Press in 2001.)

In Code: A Mathematical Journey (Sarah & David Flannery).

Imagining Numbers: Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen (Barry Mazur).

Geometry and the Imagination (Hilbert & Cohn-Vossen).

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning (Edited By A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov MIT Press).

The Enjoyment of Mathematics; selections from mathematics for the amateur (Hans Rademacher & Otto Toeplitz).

Infinity and the Mind (Rudy Rucker).



Nicholas Horton 2006-08-27