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Great books to learn what Math is really about

  • "What is Mathematics?" by R. Courant and H. Robbins. Revised by I. Stewart. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1996.
  • "Geometry and Imagination" by D. Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vossen. AMS Chelsea Publishing, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999.
  • "Proofs from the Book" by M. Aigner and G.M. Ziegler. Springer, Berlin, 1999.
  • "Symmetry" by H. Weyl. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1952.
  • "The Enjoyment of Math" by H. Rademacher and O. Toeplitz. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey, 1957.
  • "An Introduction to Probability Theory and Applications". Vol. I (3rd edition). W. Feller. John Wiley and Sons, 1970.
  • "Concrete Mathematics" by R.L. Graham, D.E. Knuth, and O. Patashnik. Addison-Wesley. Reading, Massachusetts, 1998.
  • "Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology" Vol. I. W.P. Thurston. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey, 1997.

Books on recreational mathematics

  • "Mathematical Recreations: a collection in honor of Martin Gardner". D.A. Klarner (Ed.). Dover Publications, INC. New York, 1998.
  • "The Colossal Book of Mathematics" by Martin Gardner. W.W. Norton and Company, New York -- London, 2001.

Problems and problem solving

  • "How to Solve It" by G. Polya. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey.
  • "The USSR Olympiad Problem Book" by D.O. Schklarsky, N.N. Chentzov, and I.M. Yaglom. Dover Publications, INC. New York, 1993.
  • "100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics" by H. Dörrie. Dover Publications, INC. New York, 1965.
  • "Challenging Mathematical Problems with Elementary Solutions" Vols. I and II. A.M. Yaglom and I.M. Yaglom. Dover Publications, INC. New York, 1967.

Computer Science from a Mathematical viewpoint

  • "The Art of Computing Programming: Fundamental Algorithms" by D.E. Knuth. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1997.
  • "The Art of Computing Programming: Seminumerical Algorithms" by D.E. Knuth. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1998.
  • "The Art of Computing Programming: Sorting and Searching" by D.E. Knuth. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1998.
  • "An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms" by R. Sedgewick and P. Flajolet. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1996.
  • "The Design and Analysis of Algorithms" by D.C. Kozen. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991.
  • "Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability" by H. Rogers, Jr. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987.
  • "Computability and Unsolvability" by M. Davis. Dover Publications, INC. New York, 1982.

Lisp, Scheme, and Artificial Intelligence

  • "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by H. Abelson and G.J. Sussman. The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1996.
  • "On Lisp. Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp" by P. Graham. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1994.
  • "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies in Common Lisp" by P. Norvig. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1992.
  • "Common Lisp, the Language" by G.L. Steele, Jr. Digital Press, 1990.

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