Maths books/reading

Any one recommend any good pre uni maths books? I saw a thread on this before but can't find it right now.

Any maths novels, i've read all the simon singh books, he's excellent!!

Thanks every1!!!

Reply 1

kikzen

MRLX69

Any one recommend any good pre uni maths books? I saw a thread on this before but can't find it right now.

Any maths novels, i've read all the simon singh books, he's excellent!!

Thanks every1!!!

calculus by anton, bivens and davis. its huge and its the textbook recommended to us by most of our lecturers.

its working thru pretty much everything at a level (well, calculus stuff) and taking it a bit further

Reply 2

RichE

There's a list at the bottom of this page

http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/introduction/html/node2.html

of various types.

Reply 3

MRLX69

Cool, anymore big heavy text books?!?!?! (it'll make me look so smart walkin around college with it, lol).

don't 4get the maths novels as well, I enjoy them, please every1 read Fermat's last theorem by simon singh..... it's the best!!!

Reply 4

MRLX69

RichE

There's a list of at the bottom of this page

http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/introduction/html/node2.html

of various types.

Thanks!

Reply 5

MRLX69

RichE

There's a list of at the bottom of this page

http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/introduction/html/node2.html

of various types.

Is there the same thing for cambridge?

Reply 6

john !!

the art of problem solving do some good problem solving books, vol. 1 and 2
however they are in america and the shipping costs are pretty high.

also, as a reading book you will enjoy "the man who loved only numbers" which is about Paul Erdos, its very interesting like Fermat's last theorum and they don't overlap too much but still have lots of history of maths in them.

Reply 7

JamesF

MRLX69

Is there the same thing for cambridge?

Yea, somewhere on the Cambridge site. I expect a lot of them will be the same though.

Reply 8

m:)ckel

i'm currently reading "In Code" by Sarah Flannery- it's mainly about cryptography, and she makes it's easy to understand

Reply 9

SsEe

The Mathematics of Ciphers - S.C Coutinho
A dose of number theory and its application to the RSA cryptosystem.

I've just got From Here to Infinity, Singh's Fermat's Last Theorem, M5 and M6 about 20 minutes ago.

From Here to Infinity has knot theory :smile: