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- The Code Book by Simon Singh - History of cryptography from ancient Egypt through quantum cryptography.
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman - Biography of prolific mathematician
Paul Erdos, as well as a handful of problems and some history of number theory.
- Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh - History of Fermat's Last Theorem, including much of
the history of number theory.
- Crypto by Steven Levy - Recent history about the battles over cryptography
in the private sector and government.
- Journey Through Genius by William Dunham - A walk through
math history via some landbreaking proofs.