Further reading
The bookshelf
Books that discuss the puzzles on this site. Every mention was checked against a source: the book's contents, a search inside its text or a review. Under each book are the puzzles it covers and the chapter to look in.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
2011
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How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
2014
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The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow
2008
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Probably Overthinking It
Allen B. Downey
2023
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Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
2016
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Dark Data
David J. Hand
2020
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The Art of Statistics
David Spiegelhalter
2019
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Surprises in Probability
Henk Tijms
2019
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The Book of Why
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
2018
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The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions
Martin Gardner
1961
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Paradoxes from A to Z
Michael Clark
2002
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Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives
Peter Olofsson
2007
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Alex Through the Looking-Glass
Alex Bellos
2014
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Think Bayes
Allen B. Downey
2012
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Algorithmic Puzzles
Anany Levitin, Maria Levitin
2011
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Mathematics Galore!
Chris Budd, Chris Sangwin
2001
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The Math Book
Clifford A. Pickover
2009
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
Dan Ariely
2012
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The Improbability Principle
David J. Hand
2014
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Errors, Blunders, and Lies
David Salsburg
2017
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The Limits to Growth
Donella Meadows et al.
1972
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Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability
Frederick Mosteller
1965
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Cracking the Coding Interview
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
2015
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The Mathematics of Love
Hannah Fry
2015
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Understanding Probability
Henk Tijms
2004
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Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries
Ian Stewart
2014
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The Monty Hall Problem
Jason Rosenhouse
2009
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Innumeracy
John Allen Paulos
1988
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Impossible?
Julian Havil
2008
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Aha! Gotcha
Martin Gardner
1982
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Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments
Martin Gardner
1988
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Against the Gods
Peter L. Bernstein
1996
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A History of Pi
Petr Beckmann
1971
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Satan, Cantor, and Infinity
Raymond Smullyan
1992
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Algebraic Combinatorics
Richard P. Stanley
2013
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How Many Socks Make a Pair?
Rob Eastaway
2008
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The Knowledge Illusion
Steven Sloman, Philip Fernbach
2017
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How We Know What Isn't So
Thomas Gilovich
1991
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Fortune's Formula
William Poundstone
2005