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My mid-2009 math reading list
- tokenadult 17y agoA suggestion for an addition (or replacement) for the list: http://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Geometry-John-Stillwell/dp/0387982892/ http://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Geometry-John-Stillwell/dp/038... Numbers and Geometry by John Stillwell is very readable and full of very interesting math problems, covering a lot of topics that are accessible to anyone with a good high school education but often aren't covered even by an undergraduate math degree.
- acangiano 17y agoAren't you helpful? Your little, seemingly harmless comment may cost me $50. :)
- huhtenberg 17y agoThe Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number is an utter crap as hinted by a presence of a word "astonishing" in its title. I couldn't get past first 10 pages, it is really really bad. It is basically full of pearls like "if we subtract the weight of an electron from a diameter of an average donut and compensate for Thursday, we'll get the fifth digit of Phi. Isn't it amazing. Phi is everywhere."
- michael_dorfman 17y agoAn interesting list, but I'll wait to see the reviews. "A list of books I am currently reading" is quite a different beast than "A list of books I have read, and recommend."
- raju 17y agoI just picked up Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers [http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg/dp/039304002X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg...]. I think this was posted in a comment on HN. Its a tome of a book, but from what I have seen so far, it looks really interesting. Definitely not a quick summer read though IMO