Sure! Here’s a combined list of the 40 math expository books mentioned above:
- “The Princeton Companion to Mathematics” by Timothy Gowers
- “How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” by Jordan Ellenberg
- “Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem” by Simon Singh
- “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” by Douglas Hofstadter
- “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan” by Robert Kanigel
- “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics” by John Derbyshire
- “In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World” by Ian Stewart
- “The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics” by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
- “Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics” by William Dunham
- “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity” by Steven Strogatz
- “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea” by Charles Seife
- “Chaos: Making a New Science” by James Gleick
- “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” by Edwin A. Abbott
- “The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics” by Roger Penrose
- “Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning” by A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov, and M. A. Lavrent’ev
- “The Book of Numbers” by John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy
- “The Mathematical Experience” by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
- “An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1” by Paul J. Nahin
- “The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe” by Roger Penrose
- “A Mathematician’s Apology” by G.H. Hardy
- “The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics” by Marcus du Sautoy
- “The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography” by Simon Singh
- “The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe” by Theodore Gray
- “A Beautiful Mind” by Sylvia Nasar
- “The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth” by Paul Hoffman
- “The Shape of Space: How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-Dimensional Manifolds” by Jeffrey R. Weeks
- “The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives” by Leonard Mlodinow
- “The Honors Class: Hilbert’s Problems and Their Solvers” by Benjamin Yandell
- “The Art of Mathematics: Coffee Time in Memphis” by Béla Bollobás
- “The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities” by William Dunham
- “Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway” by Siobhan Roberts
- “Alex’s Adventures in Numberland” by Alex Bellos
- “The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick” by Benoît B. Mandelbrot
- “The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure” by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- “How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics” by Eugenia Cheng
- “The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation” by Hannah Fry
- “The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers” by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
- “The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory” by Keith Devlin
- “Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World” by Mariana Cook
This list comprises a diverse selection of math expository books covering various topics in mathematics, history, biographies, and recreational mathematics. Enjoy exploring these fascinating books!
