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Easy to Read Books about Mathematics ❤️‍🔥💯☄️

You don’t have to be a genius or complete any assignments. All of these books are fairly accessible to the average reader.

I read the majority of them in high school, and they set me (a dyslexic student with undiagnosed adhd) up for a lifetime love of mathematics.

Many of these books could also be categorized as popular science or history books. A couple of them, such as Surreal Numbers and Flatland, are actually fiction!

A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable

2003 • 3 Readers • 255 pages 2

An Imaginary Tale

An Imaginary Tale
ByPaul J. Nahin

2010 • 14 Readers • 296 pages 5

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ByEli Maor

1993 • 2 Readers • 227 pages 4.5

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e: the Story of a Number

1993 • 14 Readers • 242 pages 4

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Flatland

Flatland
ByEdwin A. Abbott

1884 • 406 Readers • 99 pages 3.7

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Flatterland : like flatland only more so

2001 • 23 Readers • 320 pages 3.5

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Four Colors Suffice

Four Colors Suffice
ByRobin J. Wilson

2002 • 5 Readers • 280 pages 4

Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions

1959 • 5 Readers • 200 pages

Math Without Numbers

Math Without Numbers
ByMilo Beckman

2021 • 15 Readers • 225 pages 4.3

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

2012 • 112 Readers • 421 pages 4.1

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Surreal Numbers
ByDonald Knuth

8 Readers 4

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The Drunkard's Walk

The Drunkard's Walk
ByLeonard Mlodinow

2008 • 126 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

2002 • 36 Readers • 305 pages 3.5

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The Joy of x

The Joy of x
BySteven H. Strogatz

2012 • 82 Readers • 336 pages 3.8

The Math Book

The Math Book
ByClifford A. Pickover

2009 • 14 Readers • 528 pages 4.5

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The Music of the Primes

The Music of the Primes
ByMarcus du Sautoy

2003 • 52 Readers • 335 pages 4.4

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

2016 • 346 Readers • 274 pages 3.7

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

2000 • 5 Readers 4

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