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Jan Beuving en Ionica Smeets. De auto, de geit en de wiskunde. Nieuwezijds, 2026.

Sylvia Serfaty. Des équations personelles. Flammarion, 2026

Karl Sigmund. The Waltz of Reason. The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy. Basic Books, 2023.

Chiara Valerio. La matematica è politica. Einaudi, 2020.

Jim Al-Khalili. Pathfinders. The Golden Age of Arabic Science. London: Penguin Books, 2012

Eli Maor. "e". The Story of a Number. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015 (1994)

Siobhan Roberts. Genius at play. The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway. New York (etc.): Bloomsbury, 2015

Jordan Ellenberg. How Not To Be Wrong. The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life. Penguin, 2014.

Paul Levrie en Rudi Penne. De pracht van priemgetallen. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2014.

Edward Frenkel. Love and math. The heart of hidden reality. Basic Books, 2013

Max Tegmark. Our Mathematical Universe. New York, Knopf, 2014.

Stanislas Dehaene. The Number Sense. How the Mind Creates Mathematics. Oxford: OUP, 2011 (1997).

Jeanine Daems en Ionica Smeets. Ik was altijd heel slecht in wiskunde. Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds, 2011.

Giovanni Filocamo. Il matematico curioso. Milano: Kowalski, 2010

Gary Hayden and Michael Picard. Ce livre n'existe pas. Paradoxes, énigmes mathématiques et énigmes philosophiques. Paris: Marabout, 2009.

Vincent van der Noort. Getallen zijn je beste vrienden. Ontboezemingen van een nerd. Amsterdam: Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2011.

David Foster Wallace. Everything and more. A compact history of infinity. New York/London: Norton, 2010 (2003).

G.H. Hardy. A Mathematician's Apology. University of Alberta Mathematical Sciences Society, 2005 (1940)

Dan Rockmore. Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis. The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005.

Michael Willers. Algebra. Van vectoren tot variabelen: het ABC van X plus Z. Kerkdriel: Librero, 2010.