Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

In Journey through Genius, author William Dunham strikes an extraordinary balance between the historical and technical. He devotes each chapter to a principal result of mathematics, such as the solution of the cubic series and the divergence of the harmonic series. Not only does this book tell the stories of the people behind the math, but it also includes discussions and rigorous proofs of the relevant mathematical results.

• History Mathematics 3e
• Math through the Ages (Maa Textbooks)
• What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
• The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
• The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics - Third Edition
• Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
• Euler: The Master of Us All (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)
• Mathematics Through the Eyes of Faith
• Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book)