Women in Math: Books and Movies
Below is a list of recommended books and movies of women in mathematics.
| Title | Author |
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| Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics | Talithia Williams |
| My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir | Katherine Johnson |
| Rise of the Rocket Girls | Nathalia Holt |
| When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought | Jim Holt |
| Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age | James Essinger |
| Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring) | Ian Stewart |
| What if? | Randall Munroe |
| Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | Cathy O’Neil |
| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t | Nate Silver |
| Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem | Simon Singh |
| “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard P. Feynman |
| The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field Guid | Bryan Bunch |
| The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science | Norman Doidge |
| The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist | Richard P. Feynman |
| The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu |
| Exhalation: Stories | Ted Chiang |
| The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth | Paul Hoffman |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
Books| Hidden Figures (2016) |
| Journeys of Women in Mathematics (2018) |
| Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (2021) |
| Picture a Scientist (2020) |
| Arrival (2016) |
Movies