Literature

Books on mathematical culture.

Fiction novel

• Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.

See also Mathematical Fiction, an online database of references to mathematics in works of fiction.

Biographies

• Théorème vivant by Cédric Villani (self-biographical).
• Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Mahsa Gessen. A biography of Grisha Perelman.

Comics and graphic novels

• Logicomix. A story about the fundaments of mathematics.
• L'equation du millenaire, by Camille Bouvard and Léonidas Herrera. About the Navier-Stokes equations. In French.
• Enigma. La strana vita di Alan Turing, by Tuono Pettinato and Francesca Riccioni. In Italian.
• Last lecture at Göttingen, by Davide Osenda. Original in Italian, English translation. Creative Commons.
• Les rêveurs lunaires, by Edmond Baudoin and Cédric Villani.
• Feynmann, by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick.
• The thrilling adventures of Lovelace & Babbage, by Sidney Padua.
• Comics & Science (Italy)
• ERC comics.
• Savoir sans frontières, by Jean-Pierre Petit. In particular Le Géométricon and Le Topologicon. In French and multiple languages.