Mathematical Literature

[thrill3rnit3]

Any recommendations on some good mathematical literature? I'm not talking about textbooks; I'm talking about something like A Beautiful Mind (http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Mind-Mathematical-Genius-Laureate/dp/0743224574/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253058492&sr=8-5) by Sylvia Nasar and The Calculus of Friendship (http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Friendship-Teacher-Student-Corresponding/dp/0691134936/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253058607&sr=8-4) by Steven Strogatz.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks.

[xristy]

Brockman - My Einstein: 24 essays by people like Strogatz, Tipler and such on the person, his work and legacy

Derbyshire - Prime Obsession: the history, personalities and the math of the Riemann Hypothesis

Ronan - Symmetry and the Monster: the story of the people that developed the classification of the finite simple groups as well as a glimpse of what is was about

Singh - Fermat's Last Theorem: a story of the people and the effort to prove it up through Wiles

Davis & Hersh - The Mathematical Experience: vignettes about what mathematics is, probably not exactly in line with the OP request but there it is none-the-less.

[George Jones]

A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy,

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Apology-Canto-G-Hardy/dp/0521427061.