Interesting Books about Statistics and Mathematics

Albers, Donald J., and G.L. Alexanderson, editors. 1985. Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews. Boston: Birkhauser.

Men of Mathematics, by Eric Temple Bell. Touchstone, 1986 (reprint).

Keith J. Devlin, The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time, Basic Books (October, 2002).

Keith J. Devlin, The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern (March, 2010).

Mathematical Cranks, by Underwood Dudley. The Mathematical Association of America (1992)

I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography, by Paul Halmos. Springer-Verlag 1985.

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman. Hyperion (New York), 1998.

A Primer of Mathematical Writing, by Steven G. Krantz. American Math. Society, Providence (1996).

How to Teach Mathematics, 2nd ed., by Steven G. Krantz. American Mathematical Society, Providence (1998).

A Mathematician's Survival Guide, Steven G. Krantz. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI (2004).

Johnson, Norman L., and Samuel Kotz, editors. 1997. Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Count Down : The Race for Beautiful Solutions at the International Mathematical Olympiad, by Steve Olson. Mariner Books (2005)

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, by John Allen Paulos. Anchor, (1996)

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, by John Allen Paulos. Hill and Wang, (2001)

Prisoner's Dilemma, by William Poundstone. Anchor, Reprint edition (1993).

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century , by David Salsburg. W.H. Freeman & Company; 1st edition (2001)

Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, Simon Singh, Anchor (1998).

Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present, by Steven B. Smith. Columbia University Press (1983).

Tankard, James W. The statistical pioneers. Schenkman, Cambridge, Mass., 1984.