"Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, [Lockhart] makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living."
2013 memoir by Edward Frenkel chronicling his journey from the Soviet Union (where he was prevented from studying at Moscow State University) to teaching at Harvard and University of California, and the role and centrality of mathematics in his life. Subtitled the Heart of Hidden Reality