Math+History+Books

James A. Serendip

There are many great resources for learning ABOUT math as well as learning math available free online. Below are links to sites offering great free eBooks about the history of math, as well as about math itself.

Best Place to start: A true classic in history of mathematics is available as a pdf through Gutenberg.org A History of Mathematics by Florian Cajori []

[] The American Mathematical Society offers some great books that can be of interest to high school students, such as The War of Guns and Mathematics.

More great resources can be found at: []

Great print resources for high school students include:

//Math Girls.// (2011). Hiroshi Yuki. Bento Books, Inc. Tokyo, Japan. ANYTHING by Hiroshi Yuki is a fantastic resource, including his second edition to Math Girls and various other books in the Math Girls series.

//The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets.// (2013). Simon Singh. Bloomsbury USA. New York, NY. This is a fascinating study of all of the complex math hidden within episodes of popular tv cartoon "The Simpsons" It also goes into the background of the writers, many of whom have advanced degrees in mathematics from Ivy League Universities!

//Gödel, Escher, Bach//, 20th anniversary Edition. (1999). Douglas Hoffstatter. Basic Books. New York, NY. This is a primary work for concepts of organization and structure. It explores the interconnectedness of the language of mathematics and the underlying structures of consciousness and physics. This is a very sophisticated book and a high-level read but with some very interesting concepts even if the language and math are too advanced.

//Mathematics for the Nonmathematician.// (1985). Morris Kline. Dover Publications. Mineola, NY This is also a rather high-level read, but looks at uncertainty in mathematics and interesting conundrums.

//Mechanics.// (1961). J.P. Den Hartog. Dover Publications. Mineola, NY. Though really this book is more about physics than math, it gives great context for some of the types of equations we work with!.

Adler, Ken. (2002). //The measure of all things: The seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world.// New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc. This book explores the ingenuity and sacrifice of educated men to measure the globe. With this measurement they planned to established the meter as the standard measurement of one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator. (Lori Weinmeister)