Yunhai Xiang

Books and Essays

Fictions

• Greg Egan, Axiomatic (1990)
• Greg Egan, Permutation City (1994)
• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
• Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth’s Past: The Three-Body Trilogy (2017)
• Andy Weir, The Martian (2011)
• Jin Yong, The Return of the Condor Heroes (1959)

Non-fictions

• Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician’s Lament (2009)
• George Lakoff, Where Mathematics Come From (2000)
• Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler, Proofs from THE BOOK (1998)
• Mark Levi, The Mathematical Mechanic (2009)
• Dmitry Fuchs, Serge Tabachnikov, Mathematical Omnibus (2007)
• V. B. Alekseev, Francesca Aicardi, Abel’s Theorem in Problems and Solutions (2004)
• Timothy Gowers et al., The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (2007)
• Edward Frenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (2013)
• Alexander Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles (1986)
• Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (1997)
• Duncan Pritchard, What is this Thing Called Knowledge? (2006)
• Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980)

Essays

• Eugene Wigner, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960)
• Yuri Manin, Mathematics as a Metaphor (2007)
• G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology (1940)
• P. W. Anderson, More is Different (1972)
• H. A. Rowland, A Plea for Pure Sciences (1883)
• W. V. O. Quine, Two Dogmas of Empiracism (1951)
• Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity (1980)
• Eugenia Cheng, Mathematics, Morally (2004)
• Timothy Gowers, The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2007)