For the authors of outstanding books about mathematics from any publisher.
Ian Stewart
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed the World
Basic Books, New York, 2012.
David S. Richeson
Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
Princeton University Press, 2008.
Siobhan Roberts
King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
Walker and Company, New York, 2006.
Benjamin H. Yandell
The Honors Class. Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers
AK Peters, Natick, MA, 2002.
John Derbyshire
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
Joseph Henry Press (National Academies Press), 2003.