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