Books

This is a list of books discussed or referred to in posts on this blog. I have also included books mentioned in comments, in a rather pathetic attempt to make myself appear better-read than I really am.

• Douglas Adams, Hitch-Hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy: here, here, here, here and here
• Ron Aharoni, Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty: here
• Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler, Proofs from the Book: here
• John Ashberry, A Wave: here and here
• Julian Barbour, The End of Time: here
• John D. Barrow, The Infinite Book: here
• Thomas Bayes, Essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances: here
• Alex Bellos, Alex’s Adventures in Numberland: here
• Alex Bellos, Alex through the Looking Glass: here
• Thetis Blacker, Pilgrimage of Dreams: here
• B. Bollobás (ed.), Littlewood’s Miscellany: here and here
• John Bonnycastle, Introduction to Astronomy in Letters to his Pupil: here
• Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: here, here and here
• Jorge Luis Borges, Non-Fiction 1922–1986: here and here
• Sasha Borovik, Mathematics under the Microscope: Notes on Cognitive Aspects of Mathematical Practice: here, here and here
• Russell Braddon, The Year of the Angry Rabbit: here
• Richard Brautigan, The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western: here
• Dee Brown, Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow: here
• R. W. Burchfield (ed.), Fowler’s Modern English Usage: here
• William Byers, How Mathematicians Think: here
• Michael Bywater, Lost Worlds: here
• Neill Cameron, Mo-Bot High: here
• Neill Cameron, How to make awesome comics: here
• Peter J. Cameron, Combinatorics: Topics, Techniques, Algorithms: here and here
• Peter J. Cameron, Oligomorphic Permutation Groups: here
• Peter J. Cameron, Permutation Groups: here
• P. J. Cameron and J. H. van Lint, Designs, Graphs, Codes and their Links: here
• Girolamo Cardano, The Book of my Life: here
• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: here, here and here
• Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there: here
• G. K. Chesterton, Heretics: here and here
• Charles Colbourn and Jeff Dinitz (eds.), CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs: here
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: here
• J. H. Conway, On Numbers and Games: here and here
• John Conway and Richard Guy, The Book of Numbers: here and here
• Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kinglsey Amis: here
• Darryl Cunningham, Science Tales: here and here
• Darryl Cunningham, Supercrash: here
• Dante, Inferno (transl. Dorothy L. Sayers): here
• F. N. David and D. E. Barton, Combinatorial Chance: here and here
• Persi Diaconis, Group Representations in Probability and Statistics: here
• Augustus De Morgan, Formal Logic: here
• L. E. Dickson, Linear Groups: with an Exposition of the Galois Field Theory: here
• Jean Dieudonné, A Panorama of Pure Mathematics: as seen by N. Bourbaki: here
• Apostolos Doxiadis, Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture: here
• Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur (eds.), Circles Disturbed: the Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative: here and here
• Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, Logicomix: here, here and here
• Ivar Ekeland, The Broken Dice, and other Mathematical Tales of Chance: here
• T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets: here, here, here, here, here and here
• E. Everett, Orations and speeches on various occasions: here
• John Fauvel, Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson (eds.), Music and Mathematics: from Pythagoras to Fractals: here
• Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed: here
• Richard Feynman, Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman!: here
• Richard Feynman, What do you care what other people think?: here
• Richard Feynman, QED: the strange story of light and matter: here
• Steven Finch, Mathematical Constants: here
• Richard Elliott Friedman, The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery: here
• Martin Gardner (ed.), The Annotated Alice: here
• Simon Garfield, Just My Type: here
• Margaret Gelling, Signposts to the Past: Place-names and the History of England: here
• R. J. Gillings, Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs: here
• Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: here
• Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney (eds.), Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics: here
• Ben Goldacre, Bad Science: here, here and here
• Tim Gowers (ed.), The Princeton Companion to Mathematics: here
• Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor, Naming Infinity: here
• R. L. Graham and J. Nešetřil (eds.), The Mathematics of Paul Erdős: here
• Michael Gray and John Bauldie (eds.), All Across the Telegraph: here
• Jacques Hadamard, The Mind of the Mathematician (formerly The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field): here, here, and here
• G. Halász, L. Lovász, M. Simonovits and V. T. Sós (eds.), Paul Erdős and his Mathematics: here
• Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: here
• James Hannam, God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science: here
• N. J. Hardiman (ed.), Exploring University Mathematics, 1: here
• G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology: here, here and here
• Daniel Hartwell and Neill Cameron, Pirates of Pangaea, Book 1, here and here
• Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game: here
• Richard Hil, Whackademia: here and here
• F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp (eds.), Code Breakers: the Inside Story of Bletchley Park: here
• Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker: here and here
• Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: here and here
• Homer, The Iliad: here
• Aldous Huxley, Island: here
• Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind: here, here, here and here
• Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: here
• Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love: here
• Robert Kanigel, The Man who Knew Infinity: A Life of The Genius Ramanujan: here and here
• Gerry Kennedy and Rob Churchill, The Voynich manuscript: here
• David Kindersley, Mr Eric Gill: Further Thoughts of an Apprentice: here
• Felix Klein, The Icosahedron: and the solution of equations of the fifth degree: here
• David Knowles, The Evolution of Medieval Thought: here, here and here
• D. E. Knuth, Surreal Numbers: here
• D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook: here and here
• Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: here and here
• Norman Kretzmann and Barbara Ensign Kretzmann (ed.), The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington: here
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: here
• Eric S. Lander, Symmetric Designs: An Algebraic Approach: here
• Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven: here
• Stanislaw Lem, His Master’s Voice: here
• Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair, Rodinsky’s Room: here
• Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: here
• Ian G. Macdonald, Symmetric functions and Hall polynomials: here
• Compton Mackenzie, Rockets Galore: here
• Saunders Mac Lane, Categories for the Working Mathematician: here
• Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur: here
• Yuri Manin, Mathematics as Metaphor: here
• Eli Maor, e: the story of a number: here
• Linda Marsh (ed.), The Wordsworth Book of Sonnets: here
• G. H. Martin and J. R. L. Highfield, A Hstory of Merton College: here
• Alexander Masters, The Genius in my Basement: The Biography of a Happy Man: here
• Barry Mazur, Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen): here
• David McCandless, Information is Beautiful: here
• S. B. McGrayne, The Theory that Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy: here
• Donald Meyers, Australian Universities: A Portrait of Decline: here, here and here
• Peter M. Neumann, The Mathematical Writings of Évariste Galois: here
• Kathleen Ollerenshaw, To Talk of Many Things: An Autobiography: here and here
• George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: here
• Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick, Feynman: here
• John C. Oxtoby, Measure and Category: here
• Palinurus, The Unquiet Grave: here
• S. Parameswaran, The Golden Age of Indian Mathematics: here
• Karl Petersen, Ergodic Theory: here
• Georges Perec, La Disparition: here
• Georges Perec, La Vie mode d’emploi: here
• Robert Phillips, Aspects of Alice: here
• Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: here, here, here and here
• John von Plato, Creating Modern Probability: here
• Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse: here
• Herbert Read, The Green Child: here
• Barnaby Rogerson, Rogerson’s Book of Numbers: here
• Jason Rosenhouse, The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math’s Most Contentious Brain Teaser: here
• Carlo Rovelli, Reality is not what it seems: here
• David Ruelle, The Mathematician’s Brain: here
• Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic: here
• Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy: here
• Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica: here
• Lee Sallows, A Gallery of Geomagic Squares: here
• Michael J. Sandel, Justice: here
• Sangharakshita, The Thousand-Petalled Lotus: here
• Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors: here
• F. C. S. Schiller, Formal Logic: A Scientific and Social Problem: here
• Sohrab Sepehri, The Traveler/We Nothing But Look: here
• William Shakespeare, The Complete Works: here
• Nevil Shute, In the Wet: here
• Iain Sinclair, London Orbital: here
• Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity: here
• Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: here
• Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science: here
• John Stachel (ed.), Einstein’s Miraculous Year: here
• Oliver Stadtler, Japanese Pilgrimage: here
• Bob Stewart, Where is Saint George?: here and here
• Ian Stewart, Galois Theory: here
• Ian Stewart, Does God play dice?: here
• Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: here
• Tiresias, Notes from Overground: here, here and here
• Gerard Unger, While you’re reading: here
• Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle: here
• R. Van der Weyer, Little Gidding: Story and Guide: here
• Michael White, Leonardo da Vinci: The First Scientist: here
• Helmut Wielandt, Finite Permutation Groups: here
• Robin Wilson and John J. Watkins (eds.), Combinatorics Ancient and Modern: here and here
• Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own: here
• Alexander Woollcott (ed.), The Complete Lewis Carroll: here
• Peter Wright, Spycatcher: here