The Mersenne Society
A WSU Math Circle Reading Program
Suggested Readings
Level I Books
| Author |
Title |
| Demi |
One Grain
of Rice |
| Einhorn, Edward |
A Very Improbable Story,
a Math Adventure |
| Ellis, Julie |
What's Your Angle
Pythagoras, a Math Adventure |
| Glass, Julie |
A Fly on the Ceiling |
| Heligman, Deborah |
The Boy Who Loved Math:
The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos |
| Jaffe, Elizabeth Dana |
Can You Eat a Fraction |
| Lasky,
Kathryn |
The
Librarian Who Measured the Earth |
| McCallum, Ann |
Rabbits, Rabbits
Everywhere: A Fibonacci Tale |
| Neuschwander,
Cindy |
Sir
Cumference and All the King's Tens, a Math Adventure
|
| Neuschwander, Cindy | Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone, a Math Adventure |
| Neuschwander, Cindy | Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland, a Math Adventure |
| Neuschwander, Cindy | Sir Cumference andthe Off-the-Charts Dessert, a Math Adventure |
| Neuschwander, Cindy | Sir Cumference andthe First Round Table, a Math Adventure |
| Neuschwander, Cindy | Sir Cumference andthe Dragon of Pi, a Math Adventure |
| Neuschwander, Cindy | Mummy Math, An Adventure
in Geometry |
| Pitman,
Helena |
A Grain of
Rice |
Level II Books
| Author |
Title |
| Reimer, Leutta |
Mathematicians Are People Too (Stories from the
lives of great mathematicians), Volumes I and II |
| Vandrpool, Clara |
Navigating Early |
Level III Books
| Author |
Title |
| Aczel,
Amir |
A Strange
Wilderness |
| Aczel, Amir | Fermat's Last Theorem |
| Beckman,
Petr |
A History
of Pi |
| Bell, E. T. |
Men of Mathematics |
| Berlinghoff & Gouves | Math Through the Ages |
| Buchan, Jamie |
Easy as PI: The
Countless Ways We Used Numbers Every Day |
| Dantzig,
Tobias |
Number -
The Language of Science |
| Dunham, William | Euler, The Master of Us
All |
| Dunham, William | Jopurney Through Genius |
| Dunham,
William |
The
Mathematical Universe |
| Eves,
Howard |
In
Mathematical Circles (2 Volumes) |
| Eves,
Howard |
Mathematical
Circles Revisited |
| Eves,
Howard |
Mathematical
Circles Squared |
| Eves,
Howard |
The Other
Side of the Equation |
| Gardner,
Martin |
Mathematical
Circus |
| Gardner,
Martin |
Wheels,
Life and Other Mathematical Amusements |
| Hardy, G. H. |
A Mathematician's Apology |
| Heath, Sir Thomas |
Aristarchus of Samos:
THe Ancient Copernicus |
| Hoffman, Paul |
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers |
| Hoffman, Paul |
Archimedes' Revenge, The Challenge of
the Unknown, The Joys and Perils of Mathematics |
| Hogben, Lancelot |
Mathematics for the Millions |
| Huntley, H. E. |
The Devine Proportion, A Study in
Mathematical Beauty |
| Kanigel, Robert |
The Man Who Knew Infinity, A Life of
the Genius Ramanujan |
| Kaplan, Robert |
The Nothing That Is: a
Natural History of Zero |
| Kline, Morris |
Mathematics - A Cultural Approach |
| Kline, Morris |
Mathematics in Western Culture |
| Lewinter & Widulski |
The Saga of Mathematics - A Brief
History (Review ) |
| Livio, Mario |
The Golden Ratio |
| Livio, Mario | The Equation That
Couldn't be Solved |
| Maor, Eli |
e-the Story of a Number |
| Osen, Lynn M. |
Women in Mathematics |
| Perl, Teri |
Math Equals |
| Pickover, Clifford |
The Math Book: From
Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in
the History of Mathemarics |
| Schechter, Bruce |
My Brain is Open |
| Singh, Simon | Fermat's Enigma: The
Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest
Mathematical Problem (Review) |
| Tannenbaum, Peter |
Excursions in Modern
Mathematics |
| Waiser, Hans |
The Golden Section |
| Weiner, Norbert |
Ex-Prodigy, My Childhood & Youth |