Jim Holt

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

by Diogenes Laertius, translated from the Greek by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller

Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

by Karl Sigmund

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything

by George Musser

Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

by Michael Harris

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

by Steven Weinberg

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved

by Robin Wilson

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott, with an introduction and notes by Ian Stewart

Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So

by Ian Stewart

Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe

by Michel Blay, Translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought

by William R. Everdell

Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical Odyssey

by Joseph Warren Dauben

Non-standard Analysis

by Abraham Robinson