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Mathematics

41 books

Must-Read 1973

A Course in Arithmetic

Jean-Pierre Serre

Must-Read 1940

A Mathematician's Apology

G. H. Hardy

Must-Read 2009

Algebra

Michael Artin

Must-Read 1966

Algebra

Serge Lang

Must-Read 1977

Algebraic Geometry

Robin Hartshorne

Must-Read 2005

Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Must-Read 2013

Category Theory for the Working Mathematician

Saunders Mac Lane

Must-Read 2016

Category Theory in Context

Emily Riehl

Must-Read 1988

Concrete Mathematics

Graham, Knuth, Patashnik

Must-Read 2009

Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Must-Read 1482

Elements

Euclid

Must-Read 1884

Flatland

Edwin Abbott

Must-Read 1958

Gödel's Proof

Nagel & Newman

Must-Read 1945

How to Solve It

George Pólya

Must-Read 2008

Introduction to Probability

Dimitri Bertsekas & John Tsitsiklis

Must-Read 2012

Introduction to Smooth Manifolds

John Lee

Must-Read 1938

Introduction to the Theory of Numbers

Hardy & Wright

Must-Read 1962

Introduction to Topology

Bert Mendelson

Must-Read 2004

Linear Algebra Done Right

Sheldon Axler

Must-Read 1949

Mathematical Theory of Communication

Claude Shannon

Must-Read 1954

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning

George Pólya

Must-Read 1940

Mathematics and the Imagination

Kasner & Newman

Must-Read 1950

Measure Theory

Paul Halmos

Must-Read 1730

Opticks

Isaac Newton

Must-Read 1687

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton

Must-Read 1910

Principia Mathematica

Whitehead & Russell

Must-Read 1953

Principles of Mathematical Analysis

Walter Rudin

Must-Read 1950

Probability Theory

William Feller

Must-Read 1976

Proofs and Refutations

Imre Lakatos

Must-Read 2008

Science and Hypothesis

Henri Poincaré

Must-Read 1978

Set Theory

Thomas Jech

Must-Read 1913

The Foundations of Science

Henri Poincaré

Must-Read 2008

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Timothy Gowers

Must-Read 1988

Topology

James Munkres

Must-Read 1997

Visual Complex Analysis

Tristan Needham

Must-Read 1941

What Is Mathematics?

Courant & Robbins

Must-Read 1996

What Is Mathematics?

Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins

Recommended 1965

Elements of Mathematics

Bourbaki

Recommended 1925

Geometry

René Descartes

Recommended 1972

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times

Morris Kline

Recommended 1985

Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

Morris Kline