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- Baddeley, A. D. Working Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Balaguer, Mark. Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Bellos, Alex. The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
- Berlinski, David. A Tour of the Calculus. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
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- Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man. London: Book Club Associates, 1973.
- Brown, James Robert. Philosophy of Mathematics: A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.
- Brown, Richard G., Ray C. Jurgenson, and John W. Jurgenson. Geometry. Evanston, IL: McDougal Little, 2011.
- Caldwell, Chris, and G. L. Honaker, Jr. Prime Curios! The Dictionary of Prime Number Trivia. CreateSpace, 2009.
- Carey, Benedict. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens. New York: Random House, 2015.
- Changeux, Jean-Pierre, and Alain Connes. Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
- Cheng, Eugenia. Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
- Conway, John H., and Richard K. Guy. The Book of Numbers. New York: Copernicus, 1996.
- Courant, Richard, and Herbert Robbins. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Darling, David, and Agnijo Banerjee. Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2018.
- Davis, Philip J., and Reuben Hersh. The Mathematical Experience. New York: Mariner Books, 1998.
- Dedekind, Richard. Essays on the Theory of Numbers. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1901.
- Dehaene, Stanislas. The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909.
- Ellenberger, Henri F. The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books, 1970.
- Euclid. Euclid’s Elements. Translated by Thomas L. Heath. Santa Fe, NM: Green Lion Press, 2017.
- Franz, Marie-Louise von. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1980.
- Frenkel, Edward. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. New York: Basic Books, 2013.
- Geary, D. C. Children’s Mathematical Development: Research and Practical Applications. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1994.
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- Gowers, Timothy. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Graham, Loren, and Jean-Michel Kantor. Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Hacking, Ian. Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All? Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Hardy, G. H. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work. Providence: AMS Chelsea Publishing, 1999.
- Harris, Michael. Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.
- Heaton, Luke. A Brief History of Mathematical Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Hoffman, Paul. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth. New York: Hyperion, 1998.
- Hofstadter, Douglas J. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
- Iamblichus. The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1988.
- Kasner, Edward, and James R. Newman. Mathematics and the Imagination. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1940.
- Katz, Victor J., and Karen Hunger Parshall. Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.
- Kleppner, Daniel, and Norman Ramsey. Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
- Kline, Morris. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. New York: Fall River Press, 1980.
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- Lakoff, George, and Rafael E. Nuñez. Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
- Lang, Serge. The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues. New York: Springer Verlag, 1985.
- Larson, Ron, Laurie Boswell, Timothy Kanold, and Lee Stiff. Algebra 1. Orlando: Holt McDougal, 2012.
- Livio, Mario. Is God a Mathematician? New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
- Lockhart, Paul. Arithmetic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Manin, Yuri I. Mathematics as Metaphor: Selected Essays of Yuri I. Manin. Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2007.
- Mazur, Barry. Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Nickerson, Raymond S. Mathematical Reasoning: Patterns, Problems, Conjectures, and Proofs. New York: Psychology Press, 2010.
- Oakley, Barbara A. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra). New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2014.
- Paulos, John Allen. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. New York: Hill and Wang, 1988.
- ________. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008.
- Penrose, Roger. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
- Polo, Marco. The Travels of Marco Polo. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1958.
- Pólya, George. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945.
- Ruelle, David. The Mathematician’s Brain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Russell, Bertrand. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 2010.
- Sautoy, Marcus du. The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics. New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.
- Shimura, Goro. The Map of My Life. New York: Springer Science-Business Media, 2008.
- Spinoza, Benedict de. Ethics. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1995.
- Steen, Lynn Arthur, ed. Mathematics Today: Twelve Informal Essays. New York: Springer Verlag, 1978.
- Sterling, Mary Jane. Algebra for Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
- Stewart, Ian. The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017.
- Strogatz, Steven. The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
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- Watkins, Matthew. Secrets of Creation. Vol. 1: The Mystery of the Prime Numbers. Charlotte, NC: John Hunt, 2015.
- Weil, André. The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician. Translated by Jennifer Gage. Basel and Boston: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1992.
- Weinberg, Steven. Dreams of a Final Theory. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
- Wybrow, Cameron, ed. Creation, Nature, and Political Order in the Philosophy of Michael Foster (1903–1959): The Classic Mind Articles and Others, with Modern Critical Essays. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
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