The Story of Maths - The history of mathematics from ancient times to the present day. Narrated by Oxford mathematics professor Marcus du Sautoy, the series covers the seminal moments and people in the development of maths.  Episode 1    Episode 2    Episode 3    Episode 4      Book​

A Brief History of Mathematics - Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. How do these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world? - Free BBC Podcast

A Tribute to Euler (You tube) by William Dunham - Click here

Black Heroes of Mathematics - An Inspirational Talk

1 The Number Devil is about twelve year old Robert who hates maths.  Then in a dream, Robert meets the Number Devil, who brings the subject magically yo life, illustrating with wit and charm a world in which numbers can fascinate and amaze by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

This set of 10 books teaches maths topics, spanning from basic arithmetic to relatively complex concepts such as the quadratic formula and trigonometry. The books are written in an informal similar style involving evil geniuses, gangsters, and a generally comedic tone all by Kjartan Poskitt

1 Savage Shapes

1 The Phantom X

1 The Perfect Sausage

1 The Key to the Universe

1 Guaranteed to Mash Your Mind

This set of 10 books teaches maths topics, spanning from basic arithmetic to relatively complex concepts such as the quadratic formula and trigonometry. The books are written in an informal similar style involving evil geniuses, gangsters, and a generally comedic tone all by Kjartan Poskitt

1 Guaranteed to Bend Your Brain

1 Easy Questions - Evil Answers

1 Do You Feel Lucky

1 Desperate Measures

1 Awesome Arithmetricks           

1 The Phantom Tollbooth is a fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster. It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who drives through a magic tollbooth transporting him to the Kingdom of Wisdom, once prosperous but now troubled. There, he  goes on a quest to restore to the kingdom its exiled princesses. In the process, he learns valuable lessons, finding a love of learning. The text is full of puns and wordplay

1 IQ Puzzles

1 IQ Challenge – Over 150 brain-busting conundrums

1 10 minute Brain Workout – Brain Training Tricks, Riddles and Puzzles

1 The Number Detective – 100 Puzzles to test your logical thinking

1 Math Logic Puzzles

1 Visual Thinking Puzzles

1 The Great Book of Maths Teasers

2 Difficult Riddles for Smart Kids by M Prefontaine

1 IQ Puzzles

1 IQ Challenge – Over 150 brain-busting conundrums

1 10 minute Brain Workout – Brain Training Tricks, Riddles and Puzzles

1 The Number Detective – 100 Puzzles to test your logical thinking

1 Math Logic Puzzles

1 Visual Thinking Puzzles

1 The Great Book of Maths Teasers

2 Difficult Riddles for Smart Kids by M Prefontaine

2 What If? Absurd Hypothetical Questions - What would happen if everyone jumped at the same time? ...

2 How To. Absurd Scientific Advice - How to Power Your House ...

3 The Man Who Counted is a collection of famous mathematical puzzles, taken from a popular newspaper column, features the ""writings"" of the fictional author, Malba Tahan, who describes different mathematical puzzles and solutions applied to real situations. 

2 Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities - There are some hidden gems of logic, geometry and probability – like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop up dodecahedron, the real reason why you can’t divide anything by zero and some tips for making money by proving the obvious. There are beguiling secrets about familiar names like Pythagoras or prime numbers, as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians.

2 Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

2 Hoard of Mathematical Treasure

3 Does God Play Dice? by Ian Stewart.  An excellent introduction to Chaos.  The title is a quotation from Einstein, who believed the answer was no!         

3 Game, Set and Math.

3 Chaos, The amazing Sciences of the unpredictable by James Gleick. 

3 Fractal, Images of Chaos by Hans Lauwerier.  A look at the use of fractals in computer art, modelling population growth and the movements of the planets in the solar system.  

2 Maths On The Back Of An Envelope. 

3 Why do Buses Come in Threes?

3 How Long is a Piece of String?

3 Humble Pi.  What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? ...

3 The Maths Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained.

4 Things to make and do in the fourth dimension.

3 The Magical Maze is structured on the image of a maze representing the network of connected mathematical ideas. It covers topics such as numbers, probability, game theory, patterns and oscillators, as well as knots, computability, chaos and other topics chosen to communicate the intellectual excitement and beauty of mathematics as a subject.

3 Math Girls is the the story of the unnamed narrator and his schoolmates Miruka and Tetra, who are Japanese high school students with an interest in mathematics. Together they explore the world of mathematics by helping each other solve problems spanning a wide range of difficulty, from extensions of high school mathematics to extremely difficult problems previously addressed by famous mathematicians.

1 A Beautiful Mind - The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar .

1 64 Geeks - Meet the brains who changed the world from Aristotle to Zuckerberg

2 Einstein's Heroes - Blending Science, History and Biography a look at the beauty of Mathematics and those that inspired Einstein by R Arianrhod

2 Isaac Newton - The people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him and the contexts of his achievements by James Gleick

2 Newton - The Making of a Genius - A biography of the great man.

3 Prisoners Dilemma - Game theory plus bring to life the mathematician Von Neumann by William Poundstone.

3 The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - A biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 

3 In Code - The story of an unknow teenager Sarah Flannery and her journey to create a new coding system by Sarah Flannery

1 50 Mathematical Ideas - By exploring the subject through its 50 key insights from the simple (the number one) and the subtle (the invention of zero) to the sophisticated (proving Fermat's last theorem) this book shows how mathematics has changed the way we look at the world around us.

1 The Math Book - Its 250 short entries provide a veritable history of mathematics by focusing on its greatest theorems and the geniuses who discovered them by Clifford Pickover. 

2 Introducing Mathematics - An illustrated guide to the story of Mathematics

2 Wonders Beyond Numbers - A brief history of all things mathematical in a clear, readable informative format by Johnny Ball

2 Mathematics, Magic and Mystery - Magic involving Mathematics

2 Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

2 Mathematical Circus

3 The Unexpected Hanging

3 Further Mathematical Diversions

3 Fractal Music

3 Mathematical Carnival

2 About the Size of It - The common sense approach to measuring things by Warwick Cains

2 Longitude - The True Story of the solving of the Greatest Scientific Problem of the time by Dava Sobel.

2 A Short History of Nearly Everything - My favourite book of all time, taking you on a journey from the Big Bang to modern day in an engaging accessible manner by Bill Bryson 

2 Measuring the Universe - This is the story of the questions that have been asked about the universe and our place in it by intelligent minds, combining History and Science by Kitty Ferguson

2 The Lunar Men - The dreams and determination of the engineers of the 18th century by Jenny Uglow

2 Mathmagicians - How Maths applies to everything by Johnny Ball

2 The Neptune File - Tom tells the story of John Couch Adams and the quest to find the planet Neptune using mathematics to locate it's position.

3 The Magic of Mathematics - explores the mathematics of nature, literature and art. This fascinating look at the surprising ways mathematics influences the everyday world takes an abstract universe and anchors it to the "real" worlds of science, history and the arts in an intriguing way.

2 The Code Book.

3 The Cracking Code Book.  

3 Fermat’s Last Theorem.

2 Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour.

3 So You Think You've Got Problems

3 Can You Solve My Problems

3 Alex Through The Looking Glass

2 Images of Infinity - A collection of images, writings and cartoons revolving around the ideas and paradoxes associated with the infinite and infinitesimal.  Can a drawing of a hand drawing itself and the thing it is drawing ever be finished? by Tarquin Press.              

2 Proofs Without Words by Roger B. Nelson.  A look at the use of pictures and diagrams that enable us to see why a particular mathematical statement is true.  Visual clues to stimulate mathematical thought. 

3 Once Upon a Number - An exploration as to how logicians are inventing ways to deal with real world situations by mathematical means by J.A. Paulos

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