Been going through Conway's (and Conway related) books since his unfortunate passing. His biography by Siobhan Roberts was a great starting point to ease into it (lots of direct quotes from Conway, which makes it a very easy read that still touches on the important concepts in his work, in his own words; also highly recommend all the Numberphile videos featuring him for that)- then:
Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays is really fun to thumb through.
The Book of Numbers is fantastic and something I would gift to any mathematically curious, somewhat independent, child.
Knuth's Surreal Numbers is also a great read.
Got On Numbers and Games coming in the mail, and am trying to track down a reasonably priced copy of The Symmetries of Things.
I'm tempted to get the Atlas for my collection, but I don't think I'd actually get much from reading it (:
In non-Conway recommendations, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a huge brick of a volume, but is a very complete math encyclopedia that I love to keep on my desk and thumb through when I feel distracted. You always end up learning something new.
Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays is really fun to thumb through.
The Book of Numbers is fantastic and something I would gift to any mathematically curious, somewhat independent, child.
Knuth's Surreal Numbers is also a great read.
Got On Numbers and Games coming in the mail, and am trying to track down a reasonably priced copy of The Symmetries of Things.
I'm tempted to get the Atlas for my collection, but I don't think I'd actually get much from reading it (:
In non-Conway recommendations, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a huge brick of a volume, but is a very complete math encyclopedia that I love to keep on my desk and thumb through when I feel distracted. You always end up learning something new.