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The physicist, mathematician and author, most recently, of “Dreams of Earth and Sky” says the best books he knows about mathematics and physics are nearly a hundred years old.
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NYT By the Book column (2015-04-16).
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Kristen Ghodsee · Buy on Amazon
"Two wonderful new books by friends of mine."
Joan Connelly · Buy on Amazon
"She has a startlingly new interpretation of the Parthenon as the centerpiece of the religious life of ancient Athens."
Octavia E. Butler · Buy on Amazon
"She wrote "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents," two books that are normally classified as science fiction but are more concerned with theology than with science."
Octavia Butler · Buy on Amazon
"She wrote "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents," two books that are normally classified as science fiction but are more concerned with theology than with science."
Hölldobler and Wilson · Buy on Amazon
"he describes ants and humans with equal insight."
Robert Kanigel · Buy on Amazon
"It is impossible to write a readable book about real mathematics for nonmathematical readers. The best anybody can do is to write about a real mathematician."
Eric Bell · Buy on Amazon
"Bell's book seduced a large number of kids of my generation, including me, into becoming mathematicians."
Arthur Eddington · Buy on Amazon
"Eddington's book was the main reason why Einstein was better understood and admired by the general public in Britain and America than he was in Germany."
Bjorn Lomborg · Buy on Amazon
"Lomborg is an economist... written by skeptics, with understanding and respect for the beliefs that they were questioning."
William James · 1902 · Buy on Amazon
"Both books were written by skeptics, with understanding and respect for the beliefs that they were questioning."
Richard Hughes · Buy on Amazon
"She murders a friendly sea captain and lays the blame on members of the crew, who are hanged for the crime."
Edith Nesbit · Buy on Amazon
""The Magic City" can be read on two levels, as a children's adventure story and as a critique of modern society."
Mary Doria Russell · Buy on Amazon
"Her best stories are "The Sparrow" and "Children of God," with a Jewish girl and a Jesuit priest competing to win the hearts and minds of a planet."
Mary Doria Russell · Buy on Amazon
"Her best stories are "The Sparrow" and "Children of God," with a Jewish girl and a Jesuit priest competing to win the hearts and minds of a planet."
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky · Buy on Amazon
"He understood, long before anyone else, that the engineering problems of space travel are simple compared with the biological problems of living in space."