Yunhai Xiang 项云海
Books
Jan 05, 2023Books I Want to Read
- Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity (1980)
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951)
- J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Books I Recommend (Fiction)
- Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem (2006)
- Greg Egan, Axiomatic (1995)
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1916)
- Shuzo Oshimi, Inside Mari (2012)
Books I Recommend (Non-Fiction)
- Duncan Pritchard, What is this Thing Called Knowledge? (2006)
- Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician’s Lament (2009)
- George Lakoff, Where Mathematics Come From (2000)
- Edward Frenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (2013)
- Alexander Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles (1986)
- Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980)
- Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler, Proofs from THE BOOK (1998)
- Dmitry Fuchs, Serge Tabachnikov, Mathematical Omnibus (2007)
- V. B. Alekseev, Francesca Aicardi, Abel’s Theorem in Problems and Solutions (2004)
- Mark Levi, The Mathematical Mechanic (2009)
- Timothy Gowers et al., The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (2007)
- Răzvan Gelca, Titu Andreescu, Putnam and Beyond (2017)
- Paul Zeitz, The Art and Craft of Problem Solving (1999)
- E. R. Berlekamp, David Wolfe, Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point (1994)
- E. R. Berlekamp, J. Conway, R. Guy, Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (1982)
- Peter Winkler, Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur’s Collection (2003)
- Martin Gardner, Mathematics, Magic and Mystery (1956)
- Martin Gardner, Mathematical Magic Show (1977)
- Colm Mulcahy, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects (2013)
- Matt Cook, Sleight of Mind (2021)
- Clément Deslandes, Guillaume Deslandes, The Price of Cake (2023)
- Jonas Peters, Nicolai Meinshausen, The Raven’s Hat (2021)
- Satyan Devadoss, Matthew Harvey, Mage Merlin’s Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries (2020)
- Alexander Bogomolny, Cut the Knot (2020)
- David Ruelle, The Mathematician’s Brain (2007)
- Mikhail Shifman, You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein (2005)
- David Ruelle, The Mathematician’s Brain (2018)
- Jacques Hadamard, The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field (1945)
- George Polya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (2015)
- George Polya, Mathematical Discovery (1991)
- Thomas Lam, The CMUMC POTD Book (2025)
- Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts (1996)
- Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience (1981)
- Paul Benacerraf, Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings (1984)
- Reuben Hersh, 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics (2006)
Essays I Recommend
- Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)
- Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
- G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology (1940)
- Eugenia Cheng, Mathematics, Morally (2004)
- W. T. Gowers, The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2007)
- Kevin Buzzard, Grothendieck’s Use of Equality (2024)
- Paul Benacerraf, What Numbers Could not Be (1965)
- W. V. O. Quine, Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)
- William P. Thurston, On Proof and Progress in Mathematics (1994)