Βιβλία για την Ιστορία των Μαθηματικών και μεγάλων μαθηματικών.

Για το π, για το e, ιστορία των αριθμών, για το μηδέν, για το άπειρο, για τους “πολέμους” μεγάλων μαθηματικών (Νιούτον εναντίον Λάιμπνιτς – Newton vs Leibniz), για τους πρώτους υπολογιστές όπως και βιογραφίες γνωστών (και μη γνωστών) μαθηματικών.,


  1. 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know about Math and the Arts – John Barrow.
  2. 17 Equations That Changed the World – Ian Stewart.
  3. A Beautiful Mind – Sylvia Nasar.
  4. A History of Algebra From al-Khwārizmī to Emmy Noether – B. L. van der Waerden.
  5. A Ηistory of Μathematics – Uta C. Merzbach & Carl B.Boyer.
  6. A History of Pi – Petr Beckmann.
  7. A Mathematical History of the Golden Number – Roger Herz-Fischler.
  8. A Mathematician’s Apology – G H Hardy.
  9. A Most Elegant Equation Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics – David Stipp.
  10. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics – W.W. Rouse.
  11. A Short History of Greek Mathematics – James Gow.
  12. A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians – Amir D Aczel.
  13. Ada Lovelace Initiative – Valerie Aurora. (http://adainitiative.org)
  14. Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers Poetical Science – Betty Alexandra Toole.
  15. Ada’s Algorithm – James Essinger.
  16. Alan Turing – His Work and Impact – S. Barry Cooper, J. van Leeuwen.
  17. Alan Turing – The Enigma – Andrew Hodges.
  18. Alan Turing Computing Genius and Wartime Code Breaker –  Harry Henderson.
  19. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland – Alex Bellos.
  20. An Imaginary Tale The Story of i – Paul J. Nahin.
  21. Archimedes to Hawking Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them – Clifford Pickover.
  22. Aspects of Mathematics and music in Ancient Greece – Sofia Kontossi, Razvan Raducanu.
  23. Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities – Ian Stewart.
  24. Charles Babbag And His Calculating Engines – Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison.
  25. Descartes La géométrie de 1637 – Vincent Jullien.
  26. Descartes An Intellectual Biography – Stephen Gaukroger.
  27. Descartes A Biography – Desmond Clarke.
  28. Descartes’s Theory of Mind – Desmond Clarke.
  29. Diophantus and Diophantine Equations – Isabella G. Bashmakova.
  30. Diophantus of Alexandria A study in the History of Greek Algebra – Sir Thomas Little Heath.
  31. Discours de la méthode – Réne Descartes.
  32. Does God Play Dice The New Mathematics of Chaos – Ian Stewart.
  33. e The Story of a Number – Eli Maor.
  34. Eléments d’histoire des mathématiques-Bourbaki.
  35. Emc2 – David Bodanis.
  36. Emmy Noether The Mother of Modern Algebra – M. B. W. Tent.
  37. Emmy Noethers Wonderful Theorem – Dwight E. Neuenschwander. 
  38. Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités – Pierre-Simon (De) Laplace.
  39. Euler’s Pioneering Equation The most beautiful theorem in mathematics – Robin Wilson.
  40. Famous Puzzles of Great Mathematicians – Miodrag S. Petkovic.Jordana Cepelewicz
  41. Fermats Last Theorem For Amateurs –  Paulo Ribenboim.
  42. Fibonacci Liber Abaci – Laurence Sigler. 
  43. From One to Zero A Universal History of Numbers – Georges Ifrah.
  44. From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries – Chris Waring.
  45. Game Theory Understanding the Mathematics of Life – Brian Clegg.
  46. Goedel’s Way Exploits into an undecidable world – Gregory Chaitin. 
  47. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age – Kurt W. W. Beyer.
  48. Handbook of the History of Mathematics – Eleanor Robson, Jacqueline Stedall.
  49. How Does a Mathematician’s Brain Differ from Other Brains – Jordana Cepelewicz (www.scientificamerican.com)
  50. How to Bake Pi An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics – Eugenia Cheng.
  51. How to Lie with Statistics – Darrell Huff.
  52. How To Solve It – A New Aspect of Mathematical Method – G. Polya.
  53. Humble Pi A Comedy of Maths Errors – Matt Parker.
  54. Imaginary Numbers An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings – William Frucht.
  55. Introducing Descartes A Graphic Guide – Dave Robinson.
  56. Isaac Newton the story of one of the greatest mathematician – Michael White.
  57. Isaac Newton The Last Sorcerer – Michael White.
  58. It all adds up – Mickael Launay.
  59. Journey Through Genius – William Dunham.
  60. Kepler’s conjecture – George G. Szpiro.
  61. Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis -M. B. W. Tent.
  62. Leonhard Euler – Emil A. Fellmann.
  63. Love and Math The Heart of Hidden Reality – Edward Frenke.
  64. Math Music and Mathematics; From Pythagoras to Fractals – John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson.
  65. Math and the Mona Lisa – Bulent Atalay.
  66. Mathematicians an outer view of the inner world – Mariana Cook.
  67. Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany – Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze.
  68. Mathematics and Humor A Study of the Logic of Humor – John Allen Paulos.
  69. Mathematics and Its History – John Stillwell.
  70. Mathematics without Apologies Portrait of a Problematic Vocation – Michael Harris.
  71. Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers – Jan Gullberg, Peter Hilton.
  72. Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s life Early life – William Stukeley.
  73. Men of Mathematics – E.T.Bell.
  74. Nature’s numbers – Ian Stewart.
  75. Neo-Tech The Philosophical Zero – Ray Kotobuki.
  76. Non-Euclidean Geometry in Materials Living – Gennadiy Zhizhin.
  77. Number words and number symbols – Karl Menninger.
  78. Oeuvres de Descartes.
  79. Pensees – Blaise Pascal.
  80. Pi – A Biography of the World’s Most Mysterious Number – Alfred S. Posamentier, Ingmar Lehmann, Herbert A. Hauptman
  81. Prelude To Mathematics – W.W. Sawyer.
  82. Probability A Philosophical Perspective, Part I – Medium.com
  83. Prof Alan Turing Decoded – Dermot Turing.
  84. Proofs From the Book – Martin Aigner.
  85. Recountings Conversations with MIT Mathematicians – Joel Segel.
  86. Remarkable Mathematicians from Euler to Von Neuman – Ioan James.
  87. Scientists Mathematicians and Inventors. – Doris Simonis.
  88. Significant Figures – The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians – Ian Stewart.
  89. Solving Mathematical Problems A Personal Perspective – Terence Tao.
  90. Taming the Infinite -The Story of Mathematics – Ian Stewart.
  91. The Book of Nothing Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe – John Barrow
  92. The Calculus Story A Mathematical Adventure – David Acheson.
  93. The Calculus Wars, Newton, Leibniz and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time – Jason Socrates Bardi.
  94. The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz -Jolley.
  95. The Code Book The Secret History of Codes and Code Breaking – Simon Singh.
  96. The Colossal Book of Mathematics Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems – Martin Gardner.
  97. The Difference Engine – William Gibson & Bruce Sterling.
  98. The Divine Proportion A Study in Mathematical Beauty – H. E. Huntley.
  99. The Essential Turing Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma – B. J. Copeland.
  100. The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers – Alfred Posamentier.
  101. The Fractal Geometry of Nature – Benoit Mandelbrot.
  102. The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers – Richard A Dunlap.
  103. The Golden Ratio The Divine Beauty of Mathematics – Gary B. Meisner.
  104. The Golden Ratio The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number – Mario Livio.
  105. The History of Mathematics A Brief Course -Roger L. Cooke.
  106. The History of Mathematics A Very Short Introduction – Jacqueline Stedall.
  107. The joy of X – A guided tour of mathematics, from one to infinity – Steven H. Strogatz.
  108. The language of mathematics Making the invisible visible – Keith Devlin.
  109. The Magical Maze Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes -Ian Stewart.
  110. The Man Who Knew Infinity A Life of the Genius Ramanujan – Robert Kanigel.
  111. The Man Who Knew Too Much – Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer – David Leavitt.
  112. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth – Paul Hoffman.
  113. The Math Book From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension – Clifford A. Pickover.
  114. The Mathematical Experience – Phillip J. Davis.
  115. The Metaphysical World of Isaac Newton – John Chambers.
  116. The Music of the Primes Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters – Marcus Du Sautoy.
  117. The Mystery of Numbers – Annemarie Schimmel.
  118. The Nature and History of Mathematics – Jacqueline Stedall.
  119. The Nothing That Is : A Natural History of Zero – Robert Kaplan.
  120. The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe – Donal O’Shea.
  121. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics – Timothy Gowers.
  122. The Rationalists Descartes Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza Ethics Leibniz Monadology & Discourse on Metaphysics
  123. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer – Sydney Padua.
  124. The Turing Guide – Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson.
  125. The Universal Computer – The Road from Leibniz to Turing – Martin Davis.
  126. The Universal history of computing from the abacus to the quantum computer – Georges Ifrah.
  127. The Universal History of Numbers From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer – Georges Ifrah.
  128. The Geometry of Rene Descartes – Rene Descartes.
  129. The Man from the Future – Ananyo Bhattacharya.
  130. The Metaphysical World of Isaac Newton – John Chambers.
  131. The Principia – Isaac Newton.
  132. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension – Matt Parker.
  133. Thinking about Mathematics The Philosophy of Mathematics-Stewart Shapiro.
  134. Travels in Four Dimensions The Enigmas of Space and Time – Robin Le Poidevin.
  135. Turing On Computable Numbers With An Application To The Entscheidungsproblem – A. M. Turing.
  136. Turing’s Vision The Birth of Computer Science – Chris Bernhardt.
  137. Turing’s Cathedral The Origins of the Digital Universe – George Dyson.
  138. Visions of infinity – The great mathematical problems – Ian Stewart.
  139. What Is Mathematics – Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins.
  140. Why Does E=mc2 And Why Should We Care – Brian Cox.
  141. Why Does the World Exist – Jim Holt.
  142. Wizard The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla Biography of a Genius – Marc J. Seifer.
  143. Women in Mathematics – Association for Women in Mathematics Series, 10.
  144. Women in Science 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World – Rachel Ignotofsky.
  145. Zero the biography of a Dangerous Idea – Charles Seife.
  146. Αινστάιν – Αυτοβιογραφία.
  147. Ευκλείδη Στοιχεία, Τόμος Ι -Η γεωμετρία του επίπεδου Βιβλία I, II, III, IV, V, VI – Κέντρο Ερευνας Επιστήμης και Εκπαίδευσης.
  148. Ευκλείδη Στοιχεία, Τόμος ΙΙ – Θεωρία αριθμών Βιβλία VII, VIII, IX, X
  149. Ευκλείδη Στοιχεία, Τόμος ΙΙΙ – Η γεωμετρία του χώρου Βιβλία ΧΙ, ΧΙΙ, ΧΙΙΙ
  150. Λόγος περί της μεθόδου – Ντεκάρντ
  151. Οι Αλγεβρικές ταυτότητες στα Αριθμητικά