Yunhai Xiang 项云海

Books and Essays

Fictions

• Greg Egan, Axiomatic (1990)
• Greg Egan, Permutation City (1994)
• Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth’s Past: The Three-Body Trilogy (2017)

Philosophy and Non-fictions

• 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)
• Duncan Pritchard, What is this Thing Called Knowledge? (2006)
• Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980)

Recreational Mathematics

• 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)
• Alexander Bogomolny, Cut the Knot (2020)
• David Ruelle, The Mathematician’s Brain (2007)
• Mikhail Shifman, You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein (2005)

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)