13 must-read popular science books like The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri

Cover of The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri

The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math

By: Manil Suri

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientis…

If you liked the popular science plot in The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh

1. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

By: Simon Singh

4.30

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping hist… read more

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  • popular science
  • mathematics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Po první světové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho."

-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

"...říká se, že zkratka NSA ve skutečnosti znamená „Never Say Anything"

-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

"„Každý, kdo přemýšlí o kvantové mechanice, aniž by se mu zatočila hlava, jí nerozumí."

-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

"Polský úspěch v prolomení Enigmy byl dán třemi faktory: strachem, matematikou a špionáží."

-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Cover of We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson

2. We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

By: Jorge Cham , Daniel Whiteson

4.28

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe. P… read more

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  • popular science
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Antiwater would look and feel and behave the same way as regular water except that if you drank it you would explode in a blinding flash of light, which, we admit, would be antirefreshing."

-Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

"A single gram of antiparticles combined with a gram of normal particles would release more than 40 kilotonnes of explosive force, which is more than twice as powerful as the atomic bombs dropped by t…"

-Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

Cover of The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven H. Strogatz

3. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

By: Steven H. Strogatz

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more

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  • history
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • science
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4. Several Short Sentences About Writing

By: Verlyn Klinkenborg

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education… read more

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  • nonfiction
"People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter."

-Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing

5. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Marvelous. . . . A wonderful book."--Humana.Mente "Rovelli is the dream author to conduct us on th… read more

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6. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more

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Cover of Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky

7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Cover of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie

8. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

By: Ben McKenzie

None

Format: None pages, None

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more

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9. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more

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  • history
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • science
"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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10. Math Without Numbers

By: Milo Beckman

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math The only numbers in this book ar… read more

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  • popular science
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants by James  Vincent

11. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

By: James Vincent

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more

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  • mathematics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder

12. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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  • popular science
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Cover of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll

13. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields

By: Sean Carroll

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted… read more

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  • popular science
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter

14. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

By: David Spiegelhalter

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more

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  • popular science
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

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15. Math with Bad Drawings

By: Ben Orlin

4.22

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Smart, hilarious, and engaging, MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a delightful re-education in math that em… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Reality is a lovely starting point, but the coolest destinations lie far beyond it."

-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

"There are two kinds of people in life: those who like crude dualities and those who do not."

-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

"It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work."

-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

"Science has never been defined by infallibility or superhuman perfection. It has always been about healthy skepticism, about putting every hypothesis to the test."

-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

Cover of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean Carroll

16. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

By: Sean Carroll

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more

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  • popular science
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti

17. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

By: Paul Conti

3.74

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma Imagine, if yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg

18. Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

By: Jordan Ellenberg

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a … read more

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  • history
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • science
"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to set…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune aw…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"What I like about stochastic gradient descent is how nuts it sounds. Imagine, for instance, that the president of the United States made decisions without any kind of global strategy; rather, the nat…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

Cover of The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss

19. The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence Krauss explores the greatest unanswered questions at the forefront of science today, and l… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation by Michael Brooks

20. The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation

By: Michael Brooks

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of … read more

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  • history
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • science
Cover of The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri

21. The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math

By: Manil Suri

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientis… read more

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2.70

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4.07

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4.25

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Peter Attia

4.37

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