Alex's Adventures in Numberland
By: Alex Bellos
3.57
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaki…
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1. The God Species
By: Mark Lynas
3.97
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
In 2008 Mark Lynas attended a meeting of leading scientists in Sweden when it suddenly dawned on hi… read more
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"Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other."-Mark Lynas, The God Species
"For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers."-Mark Lynas, The God Species
"At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety."-Mark Lynas, The God Species
2. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
By: Mario Livio
3.79
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relati… read more
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"The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the fine structure constant. The value of this constant,…"-Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
"Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes …"-Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
3. Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring)
By: Ian Stewart
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a … read more
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"Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will"-Ian Stewart, Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring)
4. Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
By: Charles Leerhsen
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Finally - a fascinating andauthoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in base… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. 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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6. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
By: Simon Singh
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demon… read more
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7. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
By: Richard P. Feynman , Roger Penrose
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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8. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
By: Martin J. Rees
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
The genesis of the universe elegantly explained in a simple theory based on just six numbers by one… read more
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9. Alex's Adventures in Numberland
By: Alex Bellos
3.57
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaki… read more
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10. For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time: A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
By: Walter Lewin , Warren Goldstein
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE" is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans … read more
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11. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.23
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences … read more
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" David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he too thinks doesn't pass. For Park, the passage of time is not so much an il…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective tim…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and men…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human "now." Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the "phi phe…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
12. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
By: None
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! - Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! - Make a per… read more
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13. A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
By: Keith Devlin , Paul Lockhart
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."--Keith Devlin, math … read more
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14. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacheris a publishing first… read more
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15. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Pr… read more
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16. The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
By: Marcus du Sautoy
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy that would f… read more
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17. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
By: George Pólya
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, "How to Solve It" will show anyone in any… read more
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18. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
By: Lee Smolin
4.04
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
What is string theory? Why does it matter to our understanding of the universe? And what if it is w… read more
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"When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the generation above them had been slaughtered in World War…"-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
19. Why Does E=mc²?
By: Brian Cox , Jeffrey R. Forshaw
4.17
Format: 510 pages,
The most accessible, entertaining, and enlightening explanation of the best-known physics equation … read more
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20. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
By: John Gribbin
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more
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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
21. Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
By: Jim Al-Khalili
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. Throughout history, scientists have come … read more
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22. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
By: Michio Kaku
3.75
Format: 273 pages,
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to inv… read more
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23. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
By: Manjit Kumar
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many … read more
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24. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
25. 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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"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
26. 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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27. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more
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"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
28. 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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"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
29. A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering
By: Andrew Hunter Murray
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One perfect house. One dead body. One bad day. There are thousands and thousands of decent homes… read more
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30. Cliffrock Castle: Werken op een kasteel in Schotland
By: Josephine Rombouts
3.48
Format: 249 pages, ebook
Downton Abbey in de eenentwintigste eeuw: het verhaal van een droombaan op een kasteel in Schotland… read more
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31. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
By: Shefali Luthra
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more
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