Volumes, the MoMath book club
Love mathematics and books? Looking for a stimulating and fun discussion? Volumes, the MoMath book club, is just the thing for you. This reading group is designed especially for those interested in mathematics and science and how they affect our lives. No prior math or science background is necessary.
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Prior Volumes Selections:
- The Humans by Matt Haig
- Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
- The Second Kind of Impossible by Paul Steinhardt
- Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz
- The Shape of a Life by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
- The Prime Number Conspiracy edited by Thomas Lin
- The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Dr. Eugenia Cheng
- How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
- HELLO WORLD: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
- When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt
- Pi of Life: The Hidden Happiness of Mathematics by Sunil Singh
- Here’s Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math by Alex Bellos
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
- Who Killed Professor X? by Thodoris Andriopoulos
- The Wild Numbers by Philibert Schogt
- Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez
- A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal
- Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature by Marcus du Sautoy
- The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
- Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
- The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- A Doubter’s Almanac by Ethan Canin
- Finding Zero by Amir Aczel
- The Mathematician’s Shiva: A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer
- Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence by Joseph Mazur
- Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
- Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So by Ian Stewart
- Pythagoras’ Revenge by Arturo Sangalli
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
- The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan
- The Silicon Jungle by Shumeet Baluja
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ozawa