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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!

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A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
  • Brian Clegg
21 read
An Imaginary Tale
An Imaginary Tale
  • Paul J. Nahin
53 reads
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  • Eli Maor
4.52 reads
e: the Story of a Number
e: the Story of a Number
  • Eli Maor
45 reads
Flatland
Flatland
  • Edwin A. Abbott
3.66228 reads
Flatterland : like flatland only more so
Flatterland : like flatland only more so
  • Ian Stewart
3.59 reads
Four Colors Suffice
Four Colors Suffice
  • Robin J. Wilson
41 read
Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions
Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions
  • Martin Gardner
01 read
Math Without Numbers
Math Without Numbers
  • Milo Beckman
4.336 reads
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
  • Max Tegmark
4.0934 reads
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Surreal Numbers

Surreal Numbers
  • Donald Knuth
44 reads
The Drunkard's Walk
The Drunkard's Walk
  • Leonard Mlodinow
3.9248 reads
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
  • Mario Livio
3.5415 reads
The Joy of x
The Joy of x
  • Steven H. Strogatz
3.8227 reads
The Math Book
The Math Book
  • Clifford A. Pickover
4.53 reads
The Music of the Primes
The Music of the Primes
  • Marcus du Sautoy
4.49 reads
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
  • Cathy O'Neil
3.73127 reads
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
  • Charles Seife
42 reads