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Maths/Physics books that I currently own.
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1. "e", The Story of a Number by Eli Maor

The list author says:
	"The first good mathematics book that I read though inferior to Maor's "To Infinity and Beyond". e itself is an excellent book."

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2. Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Manfred R. Schroeder

The list author says:
	"Challenging book covering many fascinating ideas, and lots of excellent illustrations, (in no way glossy)."

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3. Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

The list author says:
	"Too esoteric to be a popular science book IMO. This is excellent as a history of chaos theory, but scientifically too rushed for readers to gain an appropriate understanding of many concepts."

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4. Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers by Lancelot Hogben

The list author says:
	"Perhaps may not fulfil it's goal of teaching maths from scratch nowadays though offers some nice historical mathematical figures such as those geometry ones of Ancient Egypt."

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5. To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite (Princeton Paperbacks) by Eli Maor

The list author says:
	"This has proven to be the most excellent popular maths book that I have seen. Particularly notable is the explanation of Cantor's levels of infinity."

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6. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter

The list author says:
	"I agree with the reviews so far, (p250ish), apart from the negative one concerning the quality of this edition: the book is in a good font size/layout/is huge. V.Good value for money."

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7. Taking Chances: Winning with Probability by John Haigh

The list author says:
	"I would recommend this for an interesting look at the applications of the theory of large numbers to games; becomes boring after circa a hundred pages."

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8. The Thirteen Books of The Elements: Volume 1: Books 1 and 2 by Euclid

The list author says:
	"Not the 1414 pages I was expecting; it is actually 432 pages including index etc. Some very nice sections on Greek maths/Euclid's life etc, and lots of nice Greek extracts."

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9. Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow

The list author says:
	"Myriad open minded, original musings from Barrow. This is a good starting point for his popular science output."

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10. The World within the World (Oxford paperbacks) by John D. Barrow

The list author says:
	"Quite a lot more challenging than Impossibility, attempts a conceptual explanation of relativity among it's very numerous inclusions."

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11. The Book Of Nothing by John D. Barrow

The list author says:
	"I bought this about 2 days before writing this list. Barrow is an addictive polymath."

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12. A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking

The list author says:
	"Has pages of predictable reviews, anoying, which often seem second-hand. I didn't like this in general. Text is too big, (like a childs fiction book), diagrams often tougher than equations ommitted."

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13. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (Penguin Science) by Paul Davies

The list author says:
	"This was the first biographical book that I had read on Einstein. The discussions on Einstein's time are satisfying."

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14. The Origin of Life (Penguin Science) by Paul Davies

The list author says:
	"The best book that I have ever read on astrobiology."

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15. Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor

The list author says:
	"This does not live up to Maor previous two similar books - 'Infinity' and 'e' - as the mathematical proofs of geometrical results are inately boring, as found in Euclid. Good historical approach."

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16. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach by Daniel J. Velleman

The list author says:
	"This is one of the best maths textbooks that I own and is a good introduction to set notation and logic, and of course, to proof."

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17. Elementary Number Theory (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series) by Gareth A. Jones

The list author says:
	"This was written by my tutor at University and that doesn't mean that I am biased in praising this excellent number theory text. One of the best maths books that I have."

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18. Calculus: A Complete Course by Robert A. Adams

The list author says:
	"I have seen this fifth edition and I wouldn't recommend it above the forth, the latter being much thicker and probably more comprehensive."

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19. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

The list author says:
	"This is perhaps the best introductory book that includes quantum theory, relativity, and superstrings. I would like to look for a more mathematical text on these subjects now."

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20. The Constants Of Nature by John D. Barrow

The list author says:
	"This is poor in contrast to Impossibility or The Book Of Nothing, (it borrows plenty of figures from the latter), and is not hugely inspired. I did however enjoy the section on Eddington."

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21. Elementary Linear Algebra by Stanley I. Grossman

The list author says:
	"I have two books called "Elementary Linear Algebra", and it was because the other was insufficient that I bought this excellent text, (there is not picture unfortunately)."

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22. Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems by William E. Boyce

The list author says:
	"I would stress that I have the sixth edition of this book, but I doubt if the seventh is worse, (though such things aren't unheard-of). The sixth edition is ideal for a differential equations course."

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23. Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe: An Exploration into Information Physics by Tom Stonier

The list author says:
	"I was lucky to find this book in an Oxfam shop and it was exactly the kind of thing that I was looking for that addresses information theory and entropy. The philosophy is probably questionable."

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24. Groups and Symmetry (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) by Mark A. Armstrong

The list author says:
	"This is a very concise and palatable book for a first group theory course."

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25. Probability and Statistics (Pie) by Morris H. DeGroot

The list author says:
	"I wouldn't recommend this unless you are doing a third year course or higher; everything is done in conditional probabilities - it is like a differential equations book only using partial derivatives."

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"e", The Story of a Number

Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise

Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers

Taking Chances: Winning with Probability

The World within the World (Oxford paperbacks)

About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (Penguin Science)

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

Calculus: A Complete Course

Elementary Linear Algebra

Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems

Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe: An Exploration into Information Physics

Groups and Symmetry (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

Probability and Statistics (Pie)

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