This is a list of books I'd recommend

Fooled by randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) 2001

The undercover economist (Tim Harford) 2005

Physics for future presidents (Richard A. Muller) 2007

Alex's adventures in Numberland (Alex Bellos) 2010

The secret of our success (Joseph Henrich) 2015

The art of statistics (David Spiegelhalter) 2019

Maths on the back of an envelope (Rob Eastaway) 2019

Artificial intelligence: A guide for thinking humans (Melanie Mitchell) 2019

Troy (Stephen Fry) 2020

The ten equations that rule the world (David Sumpter) 2020

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