extended reading for sixth form: mathematics as and a level
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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
Image Source: Amazon.co.uk February 2016