An Imaginary Tale
by Paul J. Nahin | 
Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers
by Jan Gullberg |
The Math Book
by Clifford A. Pickover | 
e: The Story of a Number
by Eli Maor | 
Poincare's Prize
by George G. Szpiro | 
A History of Pi
by Petr Beckmann |
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
by Mario Livio | 
Archimedes' Revenge
by Paul Hoffman | 
Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers | 
The Mathematical Tourist
by Ivars Peterson |
The Math Gene
by Keith Devlin |
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
by Ian Stewart | 
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
by Alex Bellos |
The Mathematical Experience
by Philip J. Davis | 
Men Of Mathematics
by Eric Temple Bell |
The Mathematical Universe
by William Dunham | 
The Ancestor's Tale
by Richard Dawkins | 
Genome
by Matt Ridley | 
Big Bang
by Simon Singh | 
Your Inner Fish
by Neil Shubin |
Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestones, works of genius destined to last forever. Now William Dunham gives them the attention they deserve.Dunham places each theorem within its historical context and explores the very human and often turbulent life of the creator - from Archimedes, the absentminded theoretician whose absorption in his work often precluded eating or bathing, to Gerolamo Cardano, the sixteenth-century mathematician whose accomplishments flourished despite a bizarre array of misadventures, to the paranoid genius of modern times, Georg Cantor. He also provides step-by-step proofs for the theorems, each easily accessible to readers with no more than a knowledge of high school mathematics.