“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
- Mark Twain
| Title | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Origami and Math | John Montroll | I like origami and I like math, so this book is perfect! Easily my top favorite origami book of all time. |
| What If? | Randall Munroe | The What If? blog but as a book, and the best way to blown the mind of fourth-grade me. |
| The Elements | Theodore Gray | Lovely periodic table book with large beautiful pictures except the author sadly didn’t try photographing the fatally radioactive elements. |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me | James Loewen | This book made me realize how ignorant I was of history before reading it. |
| The Code Book | Simon Singh | The book that got me into cryptography, except I lost my copy after carrying it around everywhere. |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | An amazing math book that I received as a present recently even though I’d already read the book a few years ago. Oh well. |
| The Dao of Functional Programming | Bartosz Milewski | A great open-source book about category theory using concrete examples from programming. |