The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#52WK3)
The astonishingly prolific author/scientist Clifford Pickover is a math enthusiast with a talent for ferreting out fascinating anecdotes about math, and writing them in a way that inspires wonder.
Accompanied by beautiful illustrations, Pickover's The Math Book about cicada-generated prime numbers, magic squares, the Golden Mean, Penrose Tiles, Xeno's Paradox, and the butterfly effect just might turn you into a lover of math. It worked for me.
