What to Read After I want to be a mathematician
Readers who loved I want to be a mathematician by Paul R. Halmos keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where I want to be a mathematician is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after I want to be a mathematician
The man who loved only numbers
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Principles of Mathematical Analysis
Proofs and refutations
Love and Math
Letters to a young mathematician
My brain is open
Birth of a Theorem
Finding Moonshine
Mathematics
Where Mathematics Comes From
Autobiography
Perfect rigor
Adventures of a Mathematician
Indiscrete thoughts
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Proofs from The Book
Symmetry
Visual complex analysis
Div, grad, curl, and all that
Mathematics for the nonmathematician
Rosalind Franklin and DNA
Math girls
Men of mathematics