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Easy to Read Books about Mathematics ❤️‍🔥💯☄️

You don’t have to be a genius or complete any assignments. All of these books are fairly accessible to the average reader.

I read the majority of them in high school, and they set me (a dyslexic student with undiagnosed adhd) up for a lifetime love of mathematics.

Many of these books could also be categorized as popular science or history books. A couple of them, such as Surreal Numbers and Flatland, are actually fiction!

A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable

2003 • 3 Readers • 255 pages 2

An Imaginary Tale

An Imaginary Tale
ByPaul J. Nahin

2010 • 7 Readers • 296 pages 5

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ByEli Maor

1993 • 1 Reader • 227 pages

Flatland

Flatland
ByEdwin A. Abbott

1884 • 288 Readers • 99 pages 3.6

Flatterland : like flatland only more so

2001 • 15 Readers • 320 pages 2.5

Four Colors Suffice

Four Colors Suffice
ByRobin J. Wilson

2002 • 5 Readers • 280 pages 4

Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions

1959 • 4 Readers • 200 pages

Math Without Numbers

Math Without Numbers
ByMilo Beckman

2021 • 10 Readers • 225 pages 4

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

2012 • 81 Readers • 421 pages 4.1

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Surreal Numbers
ByDonald Knuth

5 Readers 4

The Drunkard's Walk

The Drunkard's Walk
ByLeonard Mlodinow

2008 • 88 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

2002 • 17 Readers • 305 pages 3

The Joy of x

The Joy of x
BySteven H. Strogatz

2012 • 59 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

The Math Book

The Math Book
ByClifford A. Pickover

2009 • 7 Readers • 528 pages 5

The Music of the Primes

The Music of the Primes
ByMarcus du Sautoy

2003 • 32 Readers • 335 pages 4.3

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

2000 • 5 Readers 4