How to Cut a Cake
by Ian Stewart | 
The Mathematical Universe
by William Dunham | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant | 
Letters to a Young Mathematician
by Ian Stewart |
Murderous Maths
by Kjartan Poskitt | 
Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales
by Theoni Pappas | 
The Mathematical Tourist
by Ivars Peterson | 
Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers | 
The Grapes of Math
by Alex Bellos | 
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
by Matt Parker | 
Math Doesn't Suck
by Danica McKellar |
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
by Ian Stewart |
Mathematics
by Keith Devlin | 
Anno's Math Games
by Mitsumasa Anno | 
The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat
by Theoni Pappas | 
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson |
This distinguished little book offers a brisk introduction to a series of mathematical concepts, a history of their development, and a concise summary of how today's reader may use them.