Below is a suggested list of books about the history of mathematics. Please email us
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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.
- History of Mathematics
by Boyer
An excellent resource and cited by many other
credible math history books.
- The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
by Robert Kaplan
- The Golden Ratio: The story of phi, the world's most astonishing number
by Mario Livio