Books like Out of the Box by Rob Eastaway

Leonard Mlodinow explores how chance and probability shape everyday life, showing that success, failure, and even seemingly obvious facts are often driven by randomness.

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years. In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.

In this engaging and enlightening book, mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the crucial connections between mathematics and human progress, emphasizing the historical significance of equations and their impact on our understanding and influence of the world.