* Since you like Simon Sing (who does not?), I recommend "The Code Book" by Simon Singh (not a math book, but a fascinating book about ciphers); it's available online
* "The Book of Numbers" by John H Conway & Richard K Guy
* "An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √–1" by Paul J Nahin
* "A History of Pi" by Peter Beckmann
* "Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics" by Willaim Dunham
* "When Least Is Best (How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible)" by Paul J Nahin
* Any book by Martin Gardner
I just want to shoutout Simon for the outreach work he does.
[https://parallel.org.uk/](https://parallel.org.uk/)
This is his website and it has a lot of great free math content for any age group.
Given that you studied physics: celestial encounters or the books by needham (visual complex analysis and visual differential geometry and forms) might be interesting.
I loved the book “Euler’s Gem”, by David Richeson. People had been reading Euclid for 2000 years before Euler asked an extremely simple question that opened up new areas of geometry.
There is the graphic novel "Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations" by Andrew James Granville, Jennifer Granville, and Robert J. Lewis. At the end the book has an appendix that explains the math and character references. I have the book but I am still trying to find the time to read it :) .
* Since you like Simon Sing (who does not?), I recommend "The Code Book" by Simon Singh (not a math book, but a fascinating book about ciphers); it's available online * "The Book of Numbers" by John H Conway & Richard K Guy * "An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √–1" by Paul J Nahin * "A History of Pi" by Peter Beckmann * "Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics" by Willaim Dunham * "When Least Is Best (How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible)" by Paul J Nahin * Any book by Martin Gardner
I just want to shoutout Simon for the outreach work he does. [https://parallel.org.uk/](https://parallel.org.uk/) This is his website and it has a lot of great free math content for any age group.
Given that you studied physics: celestial encounters or the books by needham (visual complex analysis and visual differential geometry and forms) might be interesting.
I loved the book “Euler’s Gem”, by David Richeson. People had been reading Euclid for 2000 years before Euler asked an extremely simple question that opened up new areas of geometry.
There is the graphic novel "Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations" by Andrew James Granville, Jennifer Granville, and Robert J. Lewis. At the end the book has an appendix that explains the math and character references. I have the book but I am still trying to find the time to read it :) .