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40+ Best Math and Science Books at Princeton University Press

40+ Best Math and Science Books at Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is a leading independent publisher of trade and scholarly books. The Press brings influential voices and ideas to the world stage through their academic scholarship, advancing scholarly knowledge, and promoting the human conversation. We have curated their best math books.

Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems

Paul J. Nahin

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition

Lewis Carroll

Dr. Euler’s Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills

Paul J. Nahin

Understanding Institutions: The Science and Philosophy of Living Together

Francesco Guala

Philosophy of Mathematics

Øystein Linnebo

Trigonometric Delights

Eli Maor

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common

Jim Henle

Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks

Persi Diaconis

Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

Eli Maor

Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life

Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner

99 Variations on a Proof

Philip Ording

How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet

John Bryant and Chris Sangwin

Why Cats Land on Their Feet: And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles

Mark Levi

Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

Didier Sornette

Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers

Brian W. Kernighan

In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions

Paul J. Nahin

How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning

Paul J. Nahin

Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History

Lynn Gamwell

e: The Story of a Number

Eli Maor

Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology

David S. Richeson

Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers

Paul J. Nahin

Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics

Ignacio Palacios-Huerta

Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

Keith Devlin

Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics

Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek, and Tom Britton

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020

Mircea Pitici

Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity

David S. Richeson

The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math

Steven Strogatz

Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics

Robert B. Banks

Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics

Robert B. Banks

Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles

Jason Rosenhouse

Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

Rudy Rucker

Ten Great Ideas about Chance

Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms

Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion

Paul J. Nahin

Google’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings

Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer

Symmetry

Hermann Weyl

Beautiful Geometry

Eli Maor and Eugen Jost

Life’s Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants

Steven Vogel

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

George Polya

To Infinity and Beyond

Eli Maor

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1

Paul J. Nahin

Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life

Jacqueline Feke

The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History

Eli Maor

Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved

Robin J. Wilson

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