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Extended Reading for Sixth Form

Mathematics AS & A Level

1089 and All That

By David Acheson

NF 510 ACH

Alex Through the Looking-Glass

By Alex Bellos

NF 510 BEL

Alex’s Adventure in Numberland

By Alex Bellos

Beating the Odds

By Robert Eastaway

NF 510 BEL NF 510 EAS

Fermat’s Last Theorem

By Simon Singh

NF 512.74 SIN

The Code Book

By Simon Singh

NF 652.8 SIN

A Brief History of Infinity

By Brian Clegg

NF 111.6 CLE

Birth of a Theorem

By Cédric Villani

NF 510.92 VIL

Finding Moonshine

By Marcus Du Sautoy

NF 516 SAU

From Here to Infinity

By Ian Stewart

NF 510 STE

Fractals

By Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

NF 514.742 LES

Game, Set and Math

By Ian Stewart

NF 793.74 STE

The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of

seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St.

Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number ‘e’.

In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the

curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the

number. Designed for a reader with only a modest background in

mathematics, this biography of ‘e’ brings out that number’s

central importance in mathematics.

NF 512.7 MAO

E : the Story of a Number

By Eli Maor

How Many Socks Make a Pair

By Robert Eastaway

NF 510 EAS

How Long is a Piece of String?

By Robert Eastaway

NF 510 EAS

How to Lie with Statistics

By Darrell Huff

NF 519.5 HUF

A Mathematician’s Apology

By G.H. Hardy

NF 510 HAR

An Imaginary Tale

By Paul J. Nahin

NF 515.9 NAH

Introduction to

Mathematical Philosophy

By Bertrand Russell

NF 510.905 RUS

Mathematics

By Timothy Gowers

NF 510 GOW

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

By Paul Hoffman

NF 510.92 HOF

Professor Stewart, one of the world’s most popular writers on mathematics, reveals a strange universe of never-ending chess game, furiously flashing fireflies, and of course, disputes about how best to cut a cake. From shoelaces and soap bubbles to Sierpinski’s Gasket, he shows the diversity and power of topology and quasi-crystals (and cake-apportionment).

“Maths can be fun! What’s more, as Ian Stewart shows, it can be explained in everyday language… it is such a surprise to find

mathematics being made so accessible.”

- Good Book Guide

How to Cut a Cake

By Ian Stewart

NF 510 STE

Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs By Richard Elwes

NF 510 ELW

The Music of the Primes

By Marcus Du Sautoy

NF 512.72 SAU

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious

and Interesting Numbers

By David Wells

NF 513 WEL

The Tiger That Isn’t

By Michael Blastland

Seeing a pattern of stripes in the

leaves, we would run from what look

like a tiger. There are illusions in

numbers too, often just as intimidating.

This book reveals what the numbers

really show, and exposes the tiger that

isn’t

NF 510 BLA

Pi in the Sky

By John D. Barrow

NF 510 BAR

Seventeen Equations That

Changed the World

By Ian Stewart

NF 512.94 STE

The Equation That Couldn’t be

Solved

By Mario Livio

NF 512.209 LIV

Thinking About Mathematics

By Stewart Shapiro

NF 510.1 SHA

Why Do Buses Come in Threes?

By Robert Eastaway

NF 510 EAS

Zero: the Biography of

a Dangerous Idea

By Charles Seife

NF 511 SEI

“Explains to us laymen how to make senses of numbers and how we can avoid having the

wool pulled over our eyes...invaluable”

- David Dimbleby

“This book should be compulsory reading for everyone responsible for presenting data and

for everyone who consume it.”

- Sunday Telegraph

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