AP Calculus Book List
200% of Nothing, by A. K. Dewdney, John Wiley and Sons
Aging With Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer,
Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives, by D. Snowden, Bantom Press, 2002
The Art of Mathematics, by King This book explains how mathematics fits into this world using aesthetic
theories to compare the beauty of art to the beauty of mathematics; and describing the need to teach the art of
mathematics to children at a younger age.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Taleb, Thomson
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Bringing Down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas for Millons, by
Mezrich, Free Press, 2002 (book on which movie “Breaking Vegas” is based)
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You, by G. Gigerenzer
The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All
Time by Jason Socrates Bardi
A Cartoon Guide to Statistics. L. Gonick & W. Smith. Harper, 1993
The Code Book ,by Simon Singh
Concrete Mathematics, by Donald Knuth
Damned Lies and Statistics, by J. Best
e: The Story of a Number, by Eli Maor Logarithms are used everywhere in scientists’ world today. They
are the basic that’s applied in math, engineering and scientific fields. e: the Story of a Number portrays the center of the
natural logarithms and calculus. Not only did Eli Maor balanced the history and uses of math but he gives human faces to
mathematics history. This book is not full of equations, but it includes exciting stories such the rivalries between
mathematical greats such as Newton and Leibniz, and helps one understand the use of mathematics in everyday lives.
You will find yourself learning about every fundamental of math and science and how they are apply as read this detailed
book.
The Emperor's New Mind, by Penrose
This novel goes through various topics, mostly keeping with the
ideal that the human brain can not be simulated by a computer. It'll allow you glimpses to experiments done in the past
and theories of the future. Roger Penrose covers a great deal of topics, ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Quantum
Mechanics. This book encompasses the essence of math, physics, and computers in relation to the physical world,
delving into difficult subjects in a comprehensive way.
Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, 1990
Euler, the Master of Us All, by Dunham
A detailed account of mathematiciam Leonhard Euler's
accomplishments and contributions to the areas of algebra, geometry, number theory, and more.
Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace
Fermat's Enigma, by Stewart This book is about a seventeenth-century French mathemetician named Pierre
de Fermat. He proposes that for the equation x^n+y^n=z^n, there are no integer solutions greater than two. He claims he
had a proof of this, though no mathematician could find a proof for 350 years.
Fermat's Last Theorem
Five Golden Numbers, by Casti
Fooled By Randomness, by Nassim Taleb
An intensely personal and idiosyncratic meditation on the
meaning of life as performed on the probabilistic playgrounds. ... This is a book that takes an unusually rigorous –
and rigorously unusual – look at the role of randomness in everyday life.
Freakonomics, by S. D. Levitt & S. J. Dubner
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How
It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, S. Johnson
Historical Topics for the Math Classroom, by Beckmann
The History of the Calculus, by Boyer
A History of pi, by Beckmann
This book describes the chronological history of mathematics from 2000
B.C. to present day while, going through the brilliant minds of the pasts great mathematicians and their search for PI.
How to Lie with Statistics, by D. Huff, W. W. Norton
How to Think About Statistics, 6th Edition. J. L. Phillips, Jr., W. H.
Freeman, 2000
Journey Through Genius, by Dunham This book begins with the theories on the beginings of
mathmatics. It goes into how our most fundamental theorems like area of a circle or Pathagorean's theorem were formed.
The book continues through history and into modern ideas like Euler's number theory. It is a book for those who wonder
how the mathmatics we know came to be.
Jungle of Randomness, by Ivars Peterson
Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics, by Steven Woloshin, Lisa
M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch
The Lady Tasting Tea, by David Salsburg
The Man Who Counted, by Malba Tahan Take a journey with Beremiz Samir, whose adventures
require, time and time again, that he summon his extraordinary mathematical power to settle disputes, overcome
dangerous enemies, and win himself fame, fortune and rich rewards.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman
Paul Erdos was a mathematical genius
who finds no intrest in food, sex, companionship, and art because he was more involved in creating and solving
mathmatical equations nineteen hours a day until the day he died.
The Mathematical Universe, by Dunham The book takes the reader on an alphabetical journey
through great discoveries, famous Greek as well as contemporary mathematicians and important proofs from
mathematics.
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, by J. A. Paulos
A Mathematician's Apology, by G. H. Hardy
Hardy was a renowned British mathematician at
Cambridge. Very briefly, this book reflects the author's personal beliefs concerning mathematics as an intellectual pursuit.
He discusses it as an art form in which mathematics without real-life applications surpasses applied mathematics.
The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson
Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics, by
Ivars Peterson
Mathematics, the Study of Patterns, by Devlin
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes, by Mark J.
Penn, 2007
The Millennium Problems, by Keith Devlin
An introduction to and explanation of the seven problems
that the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering $1 million dollars for solutions to.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by M. Lewis, Norton, 2003
More Damned Lies and Statistics, by J. Best.
The Music of the Primes, by Marcus du Sautoy
This book has pretty much outlined the history of
the prime numbers. It goes through different mathematicians who gain further knowledge of these mysterious keys in
mathematics, as they slowly yet surely understand how to predict the amount of prime numbers and continue digging
further into the world of the primes.
Nature's Numbers, by Stewart
News & Numbers: A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and
Controversies in Health and Other Fields, by V. Cohn
Number, the Language of Science, by Dantzig
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Pi in the Sky, by Barrow
Randomness, D. Bennett, Harvard University Press, 1998
The Story of an Imaginary Tale, by Nahin
Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact In America, C. Crossen
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm
Gladwell
A Tour of the Calculus, by Berlinski
Trigonometric Delights, by Eli Maor
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
The Universe and the Teacup, by K. C. Cole Exponential functions, probability, and other
mathematical functions are found everyday, whether it be population, debt, or IQ, but "noise" is present that may distract
one from noticing the "answer".
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte.
What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
When Least is Best
The World’s Most Famous Math Problem, by Marilyn Vos Savant
ZERO, The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife.
This book provides the
foundation of the concept of zero, and the ways in which it is and has been applied to science, religion, theology,
philosophy, and mathematics in a comprehendable light.
Zero to Lazy Eight, by Humez This book is about how numbers get tied into our language and society. It
describes the numbers zero through thirteen and also infinity, telling us how each number has been incorporated into our
society.
A couple of easy readers:
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
A story about a young boy's journey through the "Land of Knowledge," where he learns many lessons to help him better
his academics and his life. K dugan
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, by Juster
A cute short story by the author of The Phantom Tollbooth telling the tale of a straight line's fight to win the heart of a
frivolous dot."
The Number Devil, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
A fun look at number theory and an easy read in a playful context.
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