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Ten of my favorite books on math. These are not math textbooks, nor do they require anything more than a high school math education to read and enjoy. They are lively accounts from the history of math, or of the nature of math which is still controversial to this day.
While many of these books have some biographical threads running through them, I am saving biographies of mathematicians for another group in which I will include such great books as Hidden Figures and other works about great women mathematicians too long neglected and ignored.
The history of mathematics has long fascinated me, particularly for the ability of mathematics to escape any logical box or straitjacket anyone has tried to put it in. It is as free as the human imagination...
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