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"Logicomix: An epic search for truth" [1] is a graphic novel that chronicles the life of Bertrand Russell (logician and philosopher) and his interactions with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Gödel. I really enjoyed this. It was fun and highly educational.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-search-truth-Apostolos-Doxi...

Reminds me of Logicomix! (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596914521/)

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html

The Mapping of the Heavens by Peter Whitfield - http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780876544754

The Macmillan Visual Dictionary - http://www.amazon.com/The-Macmillan-Visual-Dictionary-Illust...

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596...

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Calvin-Hobbes-Bill-Watterson/...

Very heavily seconded. One of my favorite novels, it does a really good job of giving a "feeling" of mathematics, without including any actual mathematics.

This is the same author as Logicomix, which is aslo very highly recommended - a comic about logic, Godel, and the foundations of mathematics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix

http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596... (this might be with a refferal link, I'm not sure - you have been warned :)

I really enjoyed Logicomix, a self-aware graphic novel mostly revolving around Bertrand Russell (with appearances by Godel, Wittgenstein, etc.) http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596...

⬐ eru

And delightfully loose with the history. (But they admit to that in the epilogue.)