Mathematics

The Mathematical Radio: Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband Paul Nahin

How a modern radio works, told through mathematics, history, and selected puzzles

Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation Ismar Volić

How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it

The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics Stephen Abbott

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition Lorraine Daston

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality

The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics John Stillwell

How the concept of proof has enabled the creation of mathematical knowledge

Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History Eli Maor and Eugen Jost

A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various cultures

Graph Theory in America: The First Hundred Years Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins, and David J. Parks

How a new mathematical field grew and matured in America

The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 Karen Hunger Parshall

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I

Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean Victor J. Katz

An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquity

Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World Benjamin Wardhaugh

A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written