<p>Has anyone read the book “A smoother pebble”?</p>
<p>I had a look at the first ten pages and the table of contents and am not sure what to make of the book. It looks like it takes a bunch of topics that may be interesting and then puts them together. It might make a good supplement book for high-school math.</p>
<p>S1 would have LOVED the Princeton book in HS, had it been released then. He’s a math/CS theory guy, and there is plenty in it to love.</p>
<p>I am looking at this list and while i read about 11 of these books, had I not I’d be overwhelmed by everything thrown at me,</p>
<p>essentially most of these books are light reads, on the comical and depressing lives of mathematicians while also providing good grounds for learning how famous conjectures and theorems came to be. </p>
<p>The books that fit that category include but are not limited to,</p>
<p>Prime Obsession by Derbyshire,
Journey Through Geniuses,
Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature
The Enigmatic Theorem,
Looking Through Euclid’s Window, </p>
<p>some more intermediate books, more math focused and less historically focused include “One Two Three Infinity”
Any Book from “Art of Problem Solving”</p>
<p>but the previous posts mentioned many other great books and I myself can’t wait to sync my teeth in them!!</p>
<p>Not about math exactly, but this sounds interesting:
The Information, James Gleick
<a href=“Bit By Bit, 'The Information' Reveals Everything : NPR”>Bit By Bit, 'The Information' Reveals Everything : NPR;
<p>I heard this story in the car tonight!</p>