WThe 1889 treatise Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita by Giuseppe Peano is a seminal document in mathematical logic and set theory, introducing what is now the standard axiomatization of the natural numbers, and known as the Peano axioms, as well as some pervasive notations, such as the symbols for the basic set operations ∈, ⊂, ∩, ∪, and A−B.
WCRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics is a bestselling book by American author Eric W. Weisstein.
WThe Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes The Creators and The Seekers. The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration, science, medicine, mathematics, and more-theoretical ones, such as time, evolution, plate tectonics, and relativity. Boorstin praises the inventive, human mind and its eternal quest to discover the universe and humanity's place in it.
WGeometry and the Imagination is the English translation of the 1932 book Anschauliche Geometrie by David Hilbert and Stephan Cohn-Vossen.
WThe Great Mathematical Problems is a 2013 book by Ian Stewart. It discusses fourteen mathematical problems and is written for laypersons. The book has received positive reviews.
WA Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy, which offers a defence of the pursuit of mathematics. Central to Hardy's "apology" — in the sense of a formal justification or defence — is an argument that mathematics has value independent of possible applications. Hardy located this value in the beauty of mathematics, and gave some examples of and criteria for mathematical beauty. The book also includes a brief autobiography, and gives the layman an insight into the mind of a working mathematician.
WNumbers: The Universal Language is an illustrated monograph on numbers and their history, published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard in 1996. Written by the French historian of science Denis Guedj, this work is the 300th volume in the “Découvertes Gallimard” collection, and was adapted into a documentary film in 2001, with the same title.
WThe Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes (2004) is a bestselling book by British author David Darling.