Author: Charles Seiter
By John Wiley & Sons

Author: Charles Seife
By Souvenir Press Ltd

one of the best maths books around, 2006-12-08
Being an undergraduate philosopher I've had to read a lot of maths books, and this is by far the best. It's true that you don't need much maths background to understand it, but it's also highly enjoyable for those with a lot of maths or physics knowledge - it links up and explains general assumptions in a way which seems never to occur to most teachers of sciences courses. The proof of 0=1 (and, extrapolating, that winston churchill = a carrot) is excellent and well worth committing to memory just to freak out any maths nerds one knows. Also worth a go is the step-by-step guide to making your own wormhole time machine (Step 1: Make a small wormhole, and attach one end to something really heavy). Really excellent, buy everyone you know a copy for christmas.

Author: K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson, S. J. Bence
By Cambridge University Press

best maths textbook for physicists, 2007-03-22
This book is simply the best. It is lightyears better than Boas (the most often suggested alternative), and it basically contains all the maths You'll ever need in all but the most theoretical undergraduate course of any natural science (well, except maths, if that's a science ;-) ).
In fact, now slowly finishing my PhD in physics, I think I can say that unless You are doing actual theoretical/mathematical physics, it probably contains all or most of the maths You'll need for the rest of Your life.

Author: Sue Johnston-Wilder, Peter Johnston-Wilder, David Pimm, John Westwell
By Routledge

A necessity for future mathematics teachers, 2001-09-19
This book has been an amazing help for me in my teaching practice. With excelent help on everything from lesson plans to classroom behaviour and interesting twists on subjects to applying for your first job. THe book helps you from your first day at training college right up to your last days in a school environment.

Author: Ian Jacques
By Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Good intoduction if your maths is a bit rusty, 2001-03-07
I found this book pretty helpful as it explains basic concepts from scratch, gradually building them up. It's easy to follow and a good foundation for businessy maths. it doesn't go into things like limitations of the modelling techniques though, but it helps you get to the level of maths needed for economics and business. It's not patronising, which is a problem I've encountered with other similar level texts. I'm pretty good at maths, but had forgotten some techniques and this provided a good reminder relevant to my degree, although it seems to be more like A level standard.

Author: Martin Anthony, Norman Biggs
By Cambridge University Press

Excellent!, 2007-06-17
I am a computer scientist with maths background (it's been a while since I graduated) who was looking to move into finance. I was therefore searching for an intermediate book but at the same time well-written and able to introduce both financial concepts and the underlying mathematics.

This book does exactly that! Starts from basics, both in terms of maths and economics/finance and gradually introduces new concepts and mathematical formulas together with "how" they are deduced, does not simply come up as if by magic with it. There is a number of worked examples as well to reinforce and practice what one has learnt plus problems with hints/solutions in the end of the book.

All in all, very well written, clear, concise, excellent introduction but also reference for those who want to fill in gaps.

Although I'm not an expert (yet ;-)) in the field I think that you should complement this book with one more advanced if you are a very experienced analyst/economist and looking for something more than a good introduction.

Author: Michael Shermer, Arthur Benjamin
By Three Rivers Press

Author: Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham
By Robson Books Ltd

Thoroughly entertaining book, 2003-05-09
I thought this was an excllent book - full of interesting real-life situations and the maths that you never knew underpinned them. I particularly liked the chapter on karaoke singers and the maths behind 'in-tune' or 'out of tune' music.

Author: Mark Ryan
By John Wiley & Sons

Great For A2 Physics, 2006-09-15
I have just started A2 Physics at my school. I didn't do maths to AS (just GCSE). I am the only one in my class without an AS in Maths. My teacher told me that I needed to know about Differentiation and Integration in order to progress my A grade in AS physics to an A in A2.

I always had the idea that Calculus was simply a very complicated area of Mathematics developed by Newton. I didn't know anything else (remember I only had a Maths GCSE).

I thought I'd buy this book to see if it could help me. The fantastic thing is that it explains every single concept in an extremely simple way (starting with the very basics). I believe that I am now up to the high standard of the mathematicians in my class and am able to understand the important mathematical concepts in physics that use calculus as a basis for their explanation. In particular, OCR's Advancing Physics A2 - Creating Models section.

You really don't need to be a math genius to understand this book fully!

Author: Darrell Huff
By Penguin Books Ltd

Spot on!, 2008-04-26
A must-read for anyone who thinks the figures and statistics, which we read about in the media every day, and often spurious conclusions which come from them, are in any way reliably presented or interpreted.