Books/Papers

A (useful?) list of (mostly) mathematics books and papers that I enjoyed. This page is inspired from an infinitely better [reading suggestion](https://math.iisc.ac.in/~manju/suggestedreading.html) by Manjunath Krishnapur.

#Books

Probability Theory
  • Probability: theory and examples. Rick Durrett, Cambridge university press, 2019.
  • Knowing the odds: an introduction to probability. John B Walsh, American Mathematical Society.
  • Probability with martingales. David Williams, Cambridge university press.
  • Green, Brown, and Probability and Brownian motion on the line. Kai Lai Chung, World Scientific.
Analysis
Math History
Misc
  • Proofs from the Book, Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler.
  • What is Mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods. Richard Courant and Robbins Herbert. Oxford University Press.
  • What is mathematics, really?, Hersh, Reuben
  • What is Mathematics?, Balkrishna Shetty
  • Magical mathematics: the mathematical ideas that animate great magic tricks. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham. Princeton University Press.
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid. Douglas R. Hofstadter.
  • Inequalities. G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood and G. Pólya. Cambridge university press.
  • Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real World. Apoorva Khare and Anne Lachowska. Yale University Press.
  • Resonance: From probability to epistemology and back. K. Burdzy, World Scientific.

#Papers

  • Narici, Lawrence, and Edward Beckenstein. “The Hahn-Banach theorem: the life and times.” Topology and its Applications 77.2 (1997): 193-211. – Interesting read. Provides a history of functional analysis and Hahn-Banach theorem. -