Popular math and science books for ages 5 to 95

Oct 20, 2024 by mtxvp

• Alice in Puzzle-Land by Raymond Smullyan
  

  • Raymond Smullyan’s ‘Alice in Puzzle-Land’ on NYTimes

• Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
  

• Beyond Infinity by Eugenia Cheng
  

• Can You Solve My Problems? by Alex Bellos
  

• Chaos by James Gleick
  

• Colossal Book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner
  

• Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart
  

• Flatland by Edwin Abbott
  

• Flatterland by Ian Stewart
  

• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
  

• Here’s Looking at Euclid by Alex Bellos
  

• How the Other Half Thinks by Sherman Stein
  

• How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng
  

• Humble Pi by Matt Parker
  

• Journey Through Genius by William Dunham
  

• Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World by Matt Parker
  

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
  

• Math for Smarty Pants by Marilyn Burns
  

• Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin
  

• Measurement by Paul Lockhart
  

• Satan, Cantor, and Infinity by Raymond Smullyan
  

• The I Hate Mathematics Book by Marilyn Burns
  

• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
  

• The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life by Eugenia Cheng
  

• The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
  

• Thinking Mathematically by John Mason
  

• Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
  

• What If? by Randall Munroe