Berlinski, David
A Tour of the Calculus
New York, Pantheon Books, 1995
515 BER

Bradshaw, Gillian
The Sand-Reckoner
New York, Tom Doherty Associates, 2000
BRADSHAW (Fiction)

Davis, Philip J.
Mathematical Encounters of the Second Kind
Boston, Berkause, 1997
510 DAVIS

Hodges, Andrew
Alan Turing: The Enigma
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1983
[B]TURING

Hoffman, Paul
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
New York, Hyperion, 1998
[B] ERDOS

Ifrah, Georges
From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers
New York, Viking, 1985
513.5 IFRAH

Klein, Herbert A.
The Science of Measurement
New York, Dover Publications, 1974
530.809 KLEIN

Koblitz, Ann Hibner
A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary
New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1993
510.92 KOBLITZ

Nassar, Sylvia
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998
[B] NASH

Perl, Teri and Nunan, Analee (contributor)
Women and Numbers: Lives of Women Mathematicians Plus Discovery Activities
San Carlos, WideWorld Publishing, 1993
510.922 PERL

Petsinis, Tom
The French Mathematician
New York, Walker & Co., 1998
FICTION

Poundstone, William
Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb
New York, Doubleday, 1992
510.92 POUNDS

Reid, Constance
From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting
Washington, D.C. Mathematical Association of America, 1992
513 REID

Stein, Sherman
Archimedes: What Did He Do Beside Cry Eureka?
Washington, DC, Mathematical Association of America, 1999
510.0901 STEIN

Temple, Eric
Men of Mathematics
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1986
510.922 BELL

Note: Materials are available at Charleston County Public Library.

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