John Gribbin

Of Coal & Calculus

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton – Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

By Benjamin Wardhaugh

John Gribbin

Mad as a Hatter

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

By Paul Hoffman

George Stern

Useful Occupations

Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

By Simon Singh

Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem

By Amir D Aczel

John Banville

Sympathy for the Bedevilled

The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother

By Ulinka Rublack

Andrew Crumey

Go Forth & Multiply

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

By Cédric Villani (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise)

Jonathan Rée

To Infinities & Beyond

Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

By Michael Harris

Jonathan Beckman

Eucliding Me?

Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

By Alex Bellos

David Singmaster

Here’s Looking at Euclid

Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life

By Robin Wilson

Alexander Masters

Igum and Igibum

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

By John Derbyshire

Patricia Fara

You Do the Math

Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain

By Benjamin Wardhaugh

David Collard

The Philosopher’s Philosopher

Frank Ramsey (1903–1930): A Sister’s Memoir

By Margaret Paul

Christopher Bray

The Sumpsons

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

By Simon Singh