Book Reviews

Here is a selection of reviews of mathematics-related books, sorted by type, along with my (purely subjective) ratings of each:

Popular Books

• Bridges to Infinity by Michael Guillen (7/10)
• Computers and the Imagination by Clifford Pickover (9/10)
• Guesstimation by Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam (9/10)
• The Magic of Mathematics by Theoni Pappas (8.5/10)
• More Puzzles, Paradoxes and Brain Teasers by Stan Gibilisco (8/10)
• Mazes for the Mind by Clifford Pickover (9.5/10)
• The World's Most Famous Math Problem by Marilyn vos Savant (2.5/10)

Puzzles and Problems

• Classic Mathemagic by Raymond Blum, Adam Hart-Davis, Bob Longe, and Derrick Niederman (5/10)
• Puzzles in Math & Logic by Aaron J. Friedland (9/10)
• Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers by Martin Gardner (9/10)

Books For Kids

• The I Hate Mathematics Book by Marilyn Burns (9.5/10)
• Math for Smarty Pants by Marilyn Burns (9/10)
• Calculator Games by Michael Donner (9/10)

Primary/Secondary Textbooks/Study Aids

• A Parent's Guide to the New Mathematics by Evelyn Sharp (6.5/10)

Tertiary Textbooks/Study Aids

• Misteaks by Barry Cipra (8.5/10)
• A Survey of Mathematics by Vivian Shaw Groza (8/10)

Reference and Educational Works

• A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer, revised by Uta C. Merzbach (8/10)

Mathematics Education

• Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic by Constance Kazuko Kamii with Georgia DeClark (8/10)
• What's Math Got to Do With it? by Jo Boaler (9/10)

Related Pages

The "Source Material" section of this site contains some pages that discuss certain books, although they are not strictly book reviews. These are:

• Elements by Euclid
• History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book by Bibhutibhusan Datta and Avadhesh Narayan Singh
• On Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle
• Pillow-Problems by Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
• The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha S. Loomis
• The Search for Truth by Eric Temple Bell