The following authors write for the educated lay person. The presentation is informal and the style is colorful and lyrical. Much can be gained even if the technical parts are skipped. Reading these books reminds me that math and science are also arts, arousing passions in their practitioners.
| Malcolm Gladwell | The Tipping Point; Outliers; What the Dog Saw | |
| David Berlinski | A Tour of the Calculus; Newton's Gift | |
| Douglas Hofstadter | Gödel, Escher, Bach (won a Pulitzer prize) | |
| Keith Devlin | Goodbye, Descartes; The Math Gene; Mathematics | |
| Ian Stewart | Letters to a Young Mathematician | |
| Stephen Pinker | The Language Instinct; The Stuff of Thought | |
| John Casti | Five Golden Rules | |
| James Gleick | Chaos; Genius; Faster; Isaac Newton | |
| Arthur Koestler | The Sleepwalkers; The Watershed; Darkness at Noon (fiction) | |
| Richard Feynman | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman; What do You Care what Other People Think; QED; Six Not-So-Easy Pieces | |
| Lewis Thomas | The Lives of a Cell; The Medusa and the Snail | |
| Loren Eisley | The Immense Journey; The Star Thrower | |
| Roger Penrose | The Emperor's New Mind; Shadows of the Mind |
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